Cat Brooks’ piercing one-person drama ”Tasha’ looks at the police killing of 2015 killing of Natasha McKenna in Virginia.
Jeunée Simon plays a variety of roles in ”Tasha,’ about a woman killed by Virginia police in 2015When you enter the theater at Z Below, projected on the stage is a long montage of photos of smiling African American people just living their lives, each with their names and ages. Many but not all are young, some as young as 8. Many but not all are women. All were killed, most of them by police officers. And you’re here to hear the story of one of them.
An earlier version of “’Tasha,” performed by Brooks and also directed by Nzinga, was part of the 2017 San Francisco Fringe Festival. Its long-awaited official premiere takes the stage just weeks after Memphis police beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to death during a traffic stop. Projected at the beginning is a quote from McKenna that she said just before the officers killed her: “You promised you wouldn’t kill me.” The play shows Tasha from an early age terrified that the police were going to come and kill her, giving the horrific sense that it was only a matter of time. “Bad enough she was Black,” says her mother with a terrible sense of resignation. “But Black and crazy? In Virginia? Now that was a problem.
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