The creative team behind “Help” discuss how they built safe, intimate spaces for working together as they rehearsed this new play by Claudia Rankine.
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ABOUT “HELP”
In her newest work “Help,” a powerful new play commissioned by The Shed, Claudia Rankine examines the nature of white male privilege.
April Matthis (Toni Stone, Roundabout Theatre; Fairview, Soho Rep) stars as the Narrator, who recounts Rankine’s real-life conversations with white men that take place in transitional spaces like airports. As the stories unfold through monologues and staged scenarios, with Ruff supported by a cast of white male actors and dancers, “Help” explores how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions.
Directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar (“Is God Is,” “Soho Rep”), “Help” builds on Rankine’s ongoing investigation into white male privilege, elements of which were shared in her recent, widely read New York Times Magazine essay, “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.”
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The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. We bring together established and emerging artists in fields ranging from hip hop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. Our home, The Bloomberg Building—designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is an unprecedented movable structure that adapts to support ambition and invention in all creative fields.
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