SIUE Xfest presents "Manifesto"
Written & Performed by Rotimi Agbabiaka
It’s a new day in America! There’s a vaccine for the virus, democracy has been saved, and now, more than ever, Black Lives Matter. It’s 2022 and as live entertainment makes its comeback from the COVID 19 pandemic, a queer, black actor decides to create a manifesto for theatre in our brave new world. But just when a revolutionary artist thinks he knows all the answers, a shot at Off-Broadway stardom and a visit from artistic mentors James Baldwin, Nina Simone, and Alejandro Jodorowsky lead him to start asking some new questions. Using comedy, drag, music, and dance, Rotimi Agbabiaka’s solo show gives an inside look at the terminally inequitable entertainment industry and then leaps forward to imagine the future of revolutionary art in a time when diversity is on trend, shining a comedic light on the triumphs, failings, and absurdities of our current moment.
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