It’s a brutal toll made resonant in an exceedingly well written script. In a taut, endlessly gripping 90 minutes, we see the pilot move from the heights of glory in carrying out remote drone strikes in the Middle East to the depths of despair as she’s forced to reconcile going from battle one minute to being home with her family the next. But when she finds herself pregnant, she’s relegated to the “chair force” as a drone operator working out of a facility in Nevada. “This one-woman show by George Brant stars Celeste Oliva as an Air Force pilot whose bravado and cockiness roll off her with abandon. Grounded Presented by the Nora Theatre Company, it plays at Central Square Theater in Cambridge through March 22nd. In the hands of director Billy Porter (Tony winner for Kinky Boots), Museum is funny until it’s not-when the satire becomes searing.” From the moment the play opens with a welcome to the “celebrity slave ship” including shackles and all (and at which point I heard the first of many audience members quietly utter “oh God”) you know well the riotous journey you’re about to take. Wolfe has called his play, The Colored Museum, both “a celebration and an exorcism.” An outrageous comedy that presents eleven exhibits in The Colored Museum, the show is rife with satire of the Black experience. In 1977, gay people had their rights taken away from them in Miami.The Colored Museum Presented by the Huntington Theatre Company, it plays at the BU Theatre through April 5th Billy Porter’s Live From Lincoln Center special airs April 3rd on PBS. So let's look at 1977, and see if there was indeed a movement to the right. So they keep on talking about this move to the right. The major media in this country has talked about the movement to the right, so the legislators think that there is indeed a movement to the right and that the Congress and the legislators and the City Council will start to move to the right and the way the major media want them. And I'm here to go ahead and say that what you hear and read is what they want you to think.īecause it's not happening. You hear about and read about this movement to the right, that we must band together and fight back this movement to the right. Why are we here? Why are gay people here? And what's happening? What's happening to me is the antithesis of what you read about in the papers and what you hear about on the radio. And the people of San Francisco figure the only way to stop it is to do a recall petition. And as soon as I said the word "I do," it started to rain again. On the day I got sworn in, we walked to City Hall. On November 9, the day after I got elected, it started to rain. And Daley won seven to two.Ībout six months ago, Anita Bryant, in her speaking to God, said that the drought in California was because of the gay people. So they did it the democratic way and voted. And they thought that was a good argument. And what took place in the Archdiocese of Chicago affected Catholicism. And what took place in Chicago affected the world. And they thought that was a good argument.Īnd Mayor Daley said he was the mayor of the backbone of the United States. What takes place in this country affects the whole world.
Then the President said he was the leader of the largest and most powerful nation of the world. The Pope said he was the titular head of one of the greatest religions of the world, and he was spiritual adviser to many, many millions. It so happened that the three people were the Pope, the President and Mayor Daley. So they had a little debate about which was the person. And they realized only one person could hold onto it. And there was one little piece of wood floating. This ocean liner was going across the ocean, and it sank. I've never been able to talk to this many political people before, so if I tell you nothing else, you may be able to go home laughing a bit. Elizabeth George is a member of the Museum's Teen Arts Council.ĮLIZABETH GEORGE: My name is Harvey Milk, and I'm here to recruit you. The following is a transcript of Elizabeth George's Janureading of Harvey Milk’s The Hope Speech, as part of Amalia Pica’s Now, Speak! installation. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Main navigation The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection.Request Images for Study and Personal Use.Furniture and Frame Conservation Laboratory.Conservation and Collections Management.Cyrus Dallin’s ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’.Curatorial Study Hall Pilot Program and Materials.Current and Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions.
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