Fri
Jan 5, 2018
11:00 pm
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Image: The Pavement Group production, Chicago, 2013, Brittany Barnes

The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) and Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) present a reading of Harry and the Thief by Sigrid Gilmer.

Mimi's cousin Jeremy has a PhD in physics, a brand new time machine and a plan. He's sending Mimi, a professional thief, back to 1863 to change history by providing Harriet Tubman with modern day guns. Lots and lots of guns.

Sigrid Gilmer makes black comedies that are historically bent, totally perverse, joyfully irreverent and are concerned with issues of identity, pop culture and contemporary American society. Her work has been performed at the Skylight Theatre, Pavement Group, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Cornerstone Theater Company and Highways Performance Space. She is a winner of the Map Fund Creative Exploration Grant, the James Irving Foundation Fellowship and is a USA Ford Fellow in Theatre.

The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre at MoAD is a collaboration that connects theater and the visual arts, bringing both audiences together, making each art form more accessible and relevant to both constituencies and providing context across art forms. Each presentation will be followed by an audience discussion.

$10 General Admission | $5 Student/Senior | Free for MoAD Members and LHT Subscribers

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