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...Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) brought The Brothers Size and In the Red and Brown Water....
...And at the same time” — he mimes his heart hammering in his chest – “I thought, ‘If I’m responding this way and I still turn away, then I’m a coward.’”...
...It was, she says, an act of erasure, and “I thought, I’m not going to write a piece where James Byrd is referenced but not seen”....
...Tarell Alvin McCraney is 33 but has already spent a quarter of a century working in the arts....
...“The UK is getting a small slice of American playwriting,” says John M Baker, literary manager at the Woolly Mammoth theatre in Washington DC....
...“I’m saying, ‘You’ve already died in Iowa, you’ve already died in New Hampshire. It’s time for the conservative cause to join together in South Carolina.’”...
...“I’m not interested in the idea that a play starts with the first line; for me it starts at the point that you arrive in the theatre.”...
...I’m going to give you a few sketches and then you just have to come in with us. Jump into the deep end and we’ll go!”...
...He is, he admits, as confused as the next man: “I care what taps I have in my bathroom; I’m as much part of the machine of consumerism as anyone else....
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