This evening of "radical fiction" features an original, community-based performance along the lines of Theatre of the Oppressed—a technique that uses theater to promote social and political change—to explore how false notions of race, class, gender, and national origin are being used as tools of exploitation and oppression. The program is presented in conjunction with the 2018 Institute for Theatre & Social Change conference  (https://sites.usc.edu/itsc2018/) and is followed by a production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octaroon, directed by Anita Dashiell-Sparks, which the New York Times called “this decade’s most eloquent theatrical statement on race in America today.”

Presented by the USC School of Dramatic Arts with support from the JIB Fund.