Blood Brothers
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For ACT company members Steven Anthony Jones and Jack Willis, a trip to South Africa to study dialects for Blood Knot became a deeper journey through their own histories with and thoughts on race. We conducted two interviews with them in November and December. What follows is an edited transcription:

What were your hopes for the trip?

Jack Willis: I thought the trip would be background. The big goal for me was dialect. It didn't end up being the most important thing about the trip. The most important thing about the trip was trying to wrap your mind around the term "colored." It's the third. In America, there's black and white. Colored is still weird. If you have any non-European blood in you, you're colored.

Steven Anthony Jones: If you're not 100 percent black African. I've done the dialect before. I've done Master Harold and the Boys, The Island…. But I knew I could get it back. I always love a live model, hearing people who talk that way talk that way. There's a few ways you can approach it. read it all!

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Word for Word's Sonny's Blues
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From the San Francisco Chronicle:
"All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it," says the narrator of James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues." No sooner are the words out of his mouth than Baldwin's prose and an ensemble of Word for Word actors make us hear "Am I Blue?" with an emotional depth that brings a lump to the throat.

Baldwin's much-anthologized short story permeates and transcends the theater in the Word production that opened Friday, produced at, and in association with, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Director Margo Hall stages the tale with a light touch, while paying careful attention to Baldwin's exploration of the difficulty of listening and hearing on all levels.read it all!

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