Surveillance Punishment And The Black Psyche

- Surveillance Punishment And The Black Psyche
- Dixon Place
- 161A Chrystie Street, New York, New York 10002
  
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- Saturday July 6th at 7:30

Surveillance Punishment and The Black Psyche is an imprisoned black man’s reflections on his life sentenced to death for killing his male overseer who was also his lover.This is the first showing of this multimedia music theater piece which draws loosely from the life of Willie Francis the 16 year old black boy who in 1947 was famously executed twice for the murder of Andrew Thomas a Cajun pharmacy owner in St. Martinville Louisiana who had once employed him. It is alleged that Francis and the 53 year old Thomas were engaged in a homosexual relationship. So here Lamar explores interracial homosex, surveillance and punishment from the Jim Crow south back to the plantation to trace it’s legacy in contemporay black life as well as how the state continues it’s white supremacist surveillance and punishment of black bodied Americans.The Text for Surveillance Punishment and the black Psyche is written by M. Lamar with additional text by Tucker Culbertson who is also the director. All Music written by M. Lamar with art design and video by Sabin Calvert

Starring M. Lamar and Jamie Foxx

for tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9803189

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