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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been at Guthrie Theater

Dates: (5/4/2012 - 5/20/2012 )

Theatre:

Guthrie Theater


Dowling Studio, 818 South 2nd Street
MInneapolis, 55415

Phone: 612.377.2224

Tickets: $18 - $22

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The year is 1953 in the Harlem apartment of Negro writer Langston Hughes. Unable to sleep he gets up and begins to write a poem, but finds his living space somehow inhabited by his readers. Exposed, guilt-ridden and fearful of the coming day he confesses how he intends to answer McCarthy's accusations on being a communist. He implores his readers not to abandon him no matter what they read or hear. His confession is intermittently interrupted by flashes of inspiration, seen in projected texts and images, of a word or line for his poem. As he tells the story of what he's written and why, and of his difficult and wonderful life as a writer, the poem continues to grow and clarify as a thing with a life of its own, and together they reveal a portrait of an artist faced with his fears and regrets before the greatest ordeal of his life.



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