![]() Being her favorite show, she’s wanted to direct it since reading it during her first semester at Towson. This is the first two act show that Yangilmau has directed. Misogynoir, a term coined by black feminist Moya Bailey, refers to the intersection of racial and gender prejudice that black women face. ![]() The show offers (with increasing political relevance) critical commentary about the cycle of poverty, particularly as experienced by black women in an institutionally racist country. Replace the stoic, isolated Hester Prynne and her unruly daughter Pearl with a long-suffering black mother (named “Hester, La Negrita”) living in abject poverty, going hungry for days so she can feed her five children.ĭirected by senior acting major Mani Yangilmau, “In The Blood” is a 1999 play by Suzan-Lori Parks that ran from Thursday to Saturday in the Center For the Arts. ![]() Instead of a puritanical Massachusetts colony, imagine the vacant streets under an overpass in New York City. ![]() ![]() By: Taylor DeVille, Associate Arts & Life EditorĪlthough Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” is a late-nineteenth century account of shame, sin and rampant misogyny in the 1600s, it might not come as a surprise (to women, anyway) that its themes are still prevalent today. ![]()
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