SPRING 2023 SHOWS:
April 14th @ the Poetry Project w/ Kay Gabriel
April 21st @ the Masonic Temple w/ Democratic Socialists of America Central Brooklyn
April 26th @ CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies w/ Zara Cadeaux
May 5th @ the Peoples Forum w/ The Center for Place, Culture and People
w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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After mounting a successful revolution, four political agitators report back to their party leader and reveal that in the course of struggle they had to execute their young comrade. In order to explain themselves they stage a play. In The Measures Taken, Bertolt Brecht leads us to question the nature of violence, solidarity, and sacrifice, as we follow the four agitators' mission to spread propaganda, incite communist revolution, and overthrow the evils of a capitalist society.
This production of The Measures Taken has sought to use Brecht’s learning play as a way to engage organizers and activists to discuss its highly relevant issues: from the role of unions in revolutionary work to the complexity of the use of violence to enact social change. During the Spring of 2022, this show was performed in public parks and activist spaces throughout NYC including collaborations with Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Club A, the Gym, DSA North Brooklyn, the Interference Archive. Most recently, this play was performed at the Socialist Conference 2022 hosted by Haymarket Books in Chicago.
