Based on the book Long Way Down By
Jason Reynolds
© Jason Reynolds, 2017. Used with the permission of Pippen Properties, Inc.
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CHECK OUT THE Try/Step/Trip TRAILERS:
“The epitome of ‘def’ poetry”
~ MOS DEF
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It becomes a loaded refrain that not only serves to comment on the recurring American story of Black subjugation, but also nods to the piece itself: my second attempt to tell the story of my personal experience through the criminal justice system.
To “try” again, at the same time, felt like the process and the point. I believed that there is “something to be gained through repetition”. And there has been. That something is Try/Step/Trip.
In Spiritrials, addiction, religion, and the law intersect
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in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. A timely exploration of the American criminal justice system, this multi-dimensional play blurs the line between hip-hop and dramatic performance. Dahlak Brathwaite (writer/performer) weaves through the autobiographical and the fictional, music and monologue, to examine his place in what appears to be a cultural rite of passage as a young Black male.
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