Denial Works The Memory of Water humorously examines the ways people justify their own actions by Lisa Drostova East Bay Express You invent these versions of me and I don’t recognize myself,” the dead woman in the sparkly blue dress tells her daughter. It’s an apt summation of the central question of Shelagh Stephenson’s The [...]

Injustice Is Global The tragic story of Stephen Lawrence comes to the TheatreFIRST stage. by Lisa Drostova East Bay Express Here in the United States, Rodney King and Amadou Diallo are the names we associate with tragedies that have forced the public to assess lingering antiblack sentiments. In Britain, the name is Stephen Lawrence, a [...]