03/24/2010

Kia's in TIME OUT! New article hits stands this week

756.th.x491.corthron Jocelyn Prince's interview with Kia is now up on Time Out's website and in the pages of the magazine!  Here's a brief excerpt:

“America is not saving me, I am here to save America,” says Abebe, an Ethiopian student preacher turned ecologist who’s the protagonist of Kia Corthron’s new play, A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, currently at Playwrights Horizons. Corthron, a writer known for tackling tough issues (environmental racism in Splash Hatch on the E Going Down, police brutality in Force Continuum), asks her audiences to stop sipping bottled water long enough to consider the consequences of their beverage choice.
Mar 24, 2010 2:02:04 PM

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