Filed under: Anne Hamilton, Season One, TheatreNow! Artists, Yvette Heyliger | Tags: #theatrenow!, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, HowlRound, Playwright, Producer, Season One, TheatreNow! Artists, Twinbiz, Yvette Heyliger
Here is a new HowlRound article by TheatreNow! Season One guest Yvette Heyliger.
Excerpt: “Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.” so said singer, actor, social activist, lawyer and athlete, the great Paul Robeson. Robeson may not have been the first, but he was certainly one of the most outspoken citizen-artists of his day, choosing to set aside his theatrical career to become politically involved—fighting for the causes he believed in, even though it meant his own financial ruin.
What makes a human being, against his own “best interests,” fight for those less fortunate, for the voiceless and the downtrodden?
– See more at: http://howlround.com/artist-as-activist-civilization%E2%80%99s-radical-voice#sthash.ijwCZ3oF.dpuf
Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow! 