by Idris Goodwin
Directed by Colin Hovde
Feb 8 - Mar 18, 2018
Radical Reimagining
Would you die for your beliefs? Is it better to work within the system to change it or take up arms against the system to destroy it?
Idris Goodwin’s The Raid is a fabulation of a debate between two American icons: White abolitionist John Brown and Black abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass. On the eve of Brown’s raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, these men argue the merits of violence and pacifism, order and chaos, and possibility of a nation free of the scourge of slavery. The Raid examines the difference between being an ally and an accomplice, the implications of race in social protest, and the limits of radicalism in the age of #Resistance.
Cast
Robert Bowen Smith – Ensemble
Marquis D. Gibson – Frederick Douglass
Tiffany Byrd – Ensemble
Nicklas Aliff – John Brown (AEA)
Dylan Fleming – Shields Green
Moira Todd – Ensemble
Josh Adams – Henri Kagi
Production Team
Cliff Williams III – Fight Choreographer
Idris Goodwin – Playwright
Dylan Morrison Myers – Assistant Director
Colin Hovde – Director
Simone Baskerville – Stage Manager
Jessica Cancino – Set Designer
- Location : The Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE Washington, DC 20020
- Run time : 90 Minutes with no intermission
