Benefit Reading: Keene
When: Mon., Oct. 19, 2020 at 7:30 pm
Presented in association with
BENEFIT READING
by ANCHULI FELICIA KING
Monday, October 19, 2020 | 7:30 PM EDT
Presented in association with
American Shakespeare Center
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It’s love at first sight for Kai, a Japanese musicologist, when she spies Tyler, the only student of color in his PhD cohort, at a Shakespeare conference. Each night, while Tyler dreams he is the subject of his thesis: Ira Aldridge, the first black man to play Othello, Kai dreams of Tyler. As dreams start to merge with reality, Tyler and Kai are brought closer together. Yet Tyler, like Ira before him, can not perceive the inevitable betrayal of his closest ally. A heartfelt ode to always being the second-class genius of color, Keene is a playful riff on early-career academia, Shakespeare’s Othello, and the power of American pop.
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