![]() ![]() No conventional linear story, yet a powerful emotional arc. Each is both a single citizen, and all citizens, interweaving. It’s a collage of colliding events, fragments, vignettes, and streams of consciousness that blend poetry, prose, movement, sound, music, and video images. Wanting to stay true to Rankine’s avoidance of a coherently straightforward narrative, Sachs laid out the framework he followed for his adaptation: “My stage adaptation of Citizen is not a play,” Sachs admitted. In an interview with Graywolf Press, publishers of Citizen, Sachs discussed just what appealed to him about the book and how he worked to transform it for the world of stage. ![]() If winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and being a finalist for the very same award for criticism didn’t convince you that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric was as much 2014’s book of the year as a form-smashing modern classic, then let Stephen Sachs’s dramatic adaptation of last year’s multidisciplinary ethos of poetry, photography, and searing political commentary turn you the right way.Ĭo-founding and creatively developing Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre into one of LA’s most notable theatre companies, Stephen Sachs had already been looking for a way to work with the public outrage surrounding Michael Brown’s shooting at the hands of law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri before Rankine’s opus even hit bookstores. ![]()
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