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The Critically Acclaimed 'Hype Man' Gets Reimagined
Company One's Hype Man: a break beat play asks: Who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice?
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The Critically Acclaimed Hype Man Gets Reimagined
STARTS APRIL 8
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Called “sharply directed, incredibly well-acted, and absolutely of-the-moment” by WGBH’s Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen, Company One’s Hype Man: a break beat play asks: who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice? This newly reimagined version of the Elliot Norton Award-winning play by poet and playwright Idris Goodwin (How We Got On) follows a rapper, a beat-maker, and a hype man on the verge of making it big when the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager shakes the interracial hip-hop trio to the core and forces them to navigate issues of friendship, race, and protest.
Production support of Virtually OBERON is provided by Massachusetts Cultural Council. Additional production support is provided by Bank of America.