Intiman's BULRUSHER: Beyond the Theatre
Intiman Theatre presents BULRUSHER by Eisa Davis from August 20 to September 14, 2019. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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The Face
Renowned author Ozeki contemplates her diverse heritage in this brief and eloquent memoir.
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Passing Strange
This theatrical stage production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical features Eisa Davis as Mother. Davis won an Obie Award for her performance in Passing Strange.
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Citizen
"Claudia Rankine's bold book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society." -- Graywolf Press.
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Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing
"Shanahan breaks fresh ground in this painfully raw debut, dissecting the self in its cultural context via speakers who fearlessly claim both vulnerability and culpability."--Publishers Weekly
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On Beauty
An homage to Howard's End, this lyrical novel addresses "adultery, identity crises and emotional suffocation, interracial and intraracial global conflicts and religious zealotry" (Publishers Weekly) while examining what makes life beautiful.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
By focusing on personal journeys, Wilkerson documents the Great Migration (1915-1970) of six million African Americans from the South to industrialized cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
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Intiman's BULRUSHER website
In 1955, in the redwood country north of San Francisco, a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant, Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the strange: the reserved schoolteacher who adopted her as a baby, the madam who runs her brothel with a fairness and discipline, the Black logger with a gentleness and a passion for living, and the guitar-slinging white boy who is after Bulrusher’s heart. Just when she thought her small world might stifle her, she discovers an entirely new place in her identity, when a black girl from Alabama comes to town. Passionate, lyrical, and brimming with down-home humor, this play is an unforgettable experience in revisioning community.
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