Black Like Me in French With Clémentine Célarié
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Performed in French with English subtitles, Clémentine Célarié’s one-woman show Dans La Peau d’un Noir adapts John Howard Griffin’s famously powerful 1961 exploration of race in America, which found the white journalist masquerading as a black man for a journey through the then-segregated South. Célarié transforms herself into dozens of characters for this solo show, co-directed by her son, songwriter-beat boxer Abraham Diallo. Born and raised in Dakar in sub-Saharan Africa and always attuned to matters of race, Célarié looks to reflect on both history and the present with her staged version of this ground-breaking book.
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