Staging Zora Neale Hurston
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Join Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson and Beinecke Library curator Melissa Barton for an insider look at the process of adapting Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" for the stage. Based on Hurston’s 1931 interviews with Cudjoe Lewis—one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade— Barracoon spent decades unpublished before becoming a landmark literary event. In this event, Anderson examines the unique artistic and ethical demands of tr
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