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When catastrophe strikes, art prevails — and has done so for centuries. In this fascinating talk, writer and director Cara Greene Epstein places the closing of theaters during the coronavirus pandemic in a historical context, exploring how we can use this intermission to imagine a more just, representative and beautiful world, onstage and off.
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Baddy Gonzales
March 16, 2021 at 2:18 pm
I love this! Thank you
Anthony
March 16, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Gag me with a spoon. We’ll all be better off if Hollywood and Broadway never make another movie or play.
Thomas Furret
March 16, 2021 at 2:26 pm
9:19 This monologue is literally the most relatable thing I have ever heard.
Pedro Eiras
March 16, 2021 at 2:39 pm
Love this so much! Thank you for sharing hope, theater and storytelling will always be around to connect us and helps us create empathy. Theater will surive covid-19! Amen!
Roary
March 16, 2021 at 2:40 pm
iv been holding my breath for 8 years
ziguirayou
March 16, 2021 at 3:07 pm
If you do theater over skype and stream it on youtube, is it still theater?
Drewbie UnderFire
March 16, 2021 at 3:26 pm
“The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw”
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Why is it that something might be so fascinating and a “good idea” must also be kept protected like it’s so fragile?
Rabbit Cube
March 16, 2021 at 5:48 pm
The fact that you went into a different and unrelated video’s comment section to complain about it might be a clue…
Drewbie UnderFire
March 16, 2021 at 6:03 pm
@Rabbit Cube it was a rhetorical question.
Rabbit Cube
March 16, 2021 at 6:10 pm
@Drewbie UnderFire So?
Anthony
March 16, 2021 at 3:36 pm
Who else thinks the world needs fewer self absorbed, elitist, preachy actors?
mark Dab
March 16, 2021 at 3:45 pm
This lady is crazy
chas ames
March 16, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Shame on her for caring about your well-being, Vladdie.
American Saxon
March 16, 2021 at 3:48 pm
3:12. So I am 22, white, and act. So you used the most ironic place for the American Dream and pass time to tell me this? To get woke about the nightmare you see fit? Lady you scare me cus I almost got my bike stolen cus I “was white” that really what the guy said. I think the only thing plague that is in America is your fault ideals that America was born into Racism. That stadium you are doing your talk in was build with blood sweat and tears done by people who gave up their family lives to work so it last. And now in 2021 you rather say this nation is Racist even after the ALL the work generations did before you did so you can live in nation like ours. You wanna be talking about Racist nations talk about China. They have laws on how many kids a woman have, and also on who is superior to anyone. Or places in the Middle East were they stone or burn gays, bi-sexuals, trans, and lesbians at the stake. They don’t even let women drive cars. You live here and you keep your “racist” American Nightmare away from my generation. I’ve seen it destroy Seattle in 2020 and my city of Cleveland in 1966. We live in a nation were it’s not utopia, or socialist, but a GOOD nation. Good and bad is everywhere you go not jut in White People-opolis i mean America.
Andre Young
March 16, 2021 at 4:06 pm
All I got out of this is I should probably buy AMC stocks.
Ignacio Ferrentino
March 16, 2021 at 4:16 pm
¡Thank you! Nice talk.
I thought my phone was broken but it was the camera cable of the Stadium.
Mehdi Baghbadran
March 16, 2021 at 4:19 pm
Hi
Olwyn Skye
March 16, 2021 at 4:21 pm
At least in my country they barely survive due to government support. Waste of money and time in my opinion but need a place to put leftists in.
Mehdi Baghbadran
March 16, 2021 at 4:21 pm
William Shakespeare, has to be renewed
Mehdi Baghbadran
March 16, 2021 at 4:28 pm
The reasons the racial is still considered, is because we’re, not believing ourselves %100 and as long as we ask the question , when we wanted to filling a form , what’s your race , religions, gender, nationality, etc……this question still remind us why we are different!
jamesaellis
March 16, 2021 at 4:31 pm
*This is everything*
Jim Meh
March 16, 2021 at 4:48 pm
When your government gives $500 million to keep failing businesses alive of course they’re going out live the pandemic. Meanwhile the Democrats lied about a $2,000 check because that was too much money.
Concerned Citizen
March 16, 2021 at 5:10 pm
Can’t help but think of those ballerina posters telling us that she can retrain (to be an Amazon delivery driver, no doubt).
TheSuperCommentGuy
March 16, 2021 at 5:21 pm
Epstein didn’t kill himself
chas ames
March 16, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Woo! Yeah! YEAH!!!
JH THORN
March 16, 2021 at 7:37 pm
ARts revitalize communities.
आदित्य Aditya मेहेंदळे Mehendale
March 16, 2021 at 8:28 pm
PLEASE! No side-camera!
Calvin Sperry
March 16, 2021 at 9:23 pm
What is the play that monologue was from?
Kelli Hicks
March 16, 2021 at 11:58 pm
When we all come out of this intermission, I can’t wait to see what the stage looks like and what the second half of my life brings me.
anna rouki
March 17, 2021 at 2:27 am
THANK YOU for your “work” every Monday morning..! CONGRATS and i wish more “creative” persons like you, to do the same..!
HAPPY VLOGS
March 17, 2021 at 3:30 am
Fantastic
BLACK MAMBA FF
March 17, 2021 at 4:04 am
Background Sound prblm …hope it will be better in next one.😓
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March 17, 2021 at 7:30 am
It’s awesome!!
펌프점프[긍정&힐링]
March 17, 2021 at 7:30 am
It’s awesome!!
PerMagnus Lindborg
March 17, 2021 at 11:45 am
So lonely…
Nicholas Lipowski
March 17, 2021 at 11:51 am
Worst Ted Talk of all time
HAPPY VLOGS
March 17, 2021 at 12:43 pm
Nice 🙏👍
HAPPY VLOGS
March 18, 2021 at 1:45 pm
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Newby YT
March 17, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Great talk
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James Kulevich
March 17, 2021 at 6:01 pm
True Chi-town woman. You go girl!
Harvey Holloway
March 17, 2021 at 11:44 pm
You are an excellent speaker.
Lenord Terry
March 18, 2021 at 2:54 am
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March 18, 2021 at 3:37 am
GOD LOVES YOU. :))
Erica Villanueva
March 20, 2021 at 3:25 pm
Wow. Thank you.