New play Studio_Theatre! 🎭 In his new play GOOD BONES, Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames asks audience members to consider that the history of their city lies not just in museums and monuments, but in every street and building. sponsored
is a story that could happen in many cities, but the circumstances that inspired it tell a tale of two cities: DC, where playwright James Ijames first conceived of the story, and Philadelphia, his adopted hometown.
It started in DC, when Studio Theatre commissioned a play from the future Pulitzer Prize-winner. “When I was down in DC for my residency, to see the spaces and a show here, I went on a walking tour… My tour guide kept pointing out places that used to be different things: ‘This used to be this. This used to be that,’” Ijames told the play’s dramaturg, Adrien-Alice Hansel. “This really is a play about haunting. You displace people.
“What does it mean when we just remove people?” Ijames asks. “The play seems like it’s about gentrification, but I hope it’s actually talking about how a person or people enter into a community and become a part of that community.” Aisha and Travis, the neighborhood’s newcomers in the play, are an upwardly mobile Black couple. Ijames, a North Carolina native, drew on his own experience of becoming a homeowner in a Philadelphia neighborhood that was also seeing a rise of property values.
DC and Philadelphia are cities that take pride in their history, preserving it in museums and memorializing it with monuments. Butstreet and building, a story told not just by what is preserved, but also by what is allowed – or forced – to disappear.
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