Thursday, March 21, 2019
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's new leader envisions another chapter of liberation
Datebook: Darryl V. Jones might be brimming with fresh ideas for the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, but he grounds them in a timeless source: the company’s namesake.
As LHT’s new acting artistic director — his position is still on a trial basis, though he hopes it will become permanent — Jones envisions the theater’s future as a new chapter in African American liberation, the same project to which Hansberry’s career was devoted.
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One question that this article makes me ask is where do theatre companies get artistic directors from? Is there a job notice that a company will send out and do interviews? Do people get nominated from past directors that the company has worked with? This article makes me ask this question, as the new artistic director at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is just the acting artistic director. The quote “In a slave narrative, you really understood the life of an enslaved person, so it wasn’t just a slave as chattel; it was a person being treated as chattel.” really struck me. I think that this is an extremely powerful image for someone wants to bring onto the stage. I hope this artistic director is successful in creating this type of work. I am very interested in the intersectionality that is brought up in the works done by the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. It is great to hear about this kind of work being done. The last question that this article makes me wonder is how much an artistic director shapes a company and how much the company shapes the artistic director?
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