11TH & PINE will be an interactive theater work that reflects on the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protests (CHOP); a summer-long occupation of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood calling for police reform following the murder of George Floyd.
In this new transmedial performance, audiences will physically walk the path of the protests, exploring the multiplicity of perspectives from activists who dared to push back against systems of oppression. Their stories, captured by documentary theatre-maker and oral historian Nikki Yeboah through first-hand interviews and recreated by voice actors, will be mixed with original music by and atmospheric soundscape from field recordings and archival news footage. Co-created with director and immersive media designer, Adrienne Mackey, the final experience will be delivered via a free mobile phone app that uses a GPS-triggered digital delivery that activates audiences as investigators of the sites of protest, memorializing and complicating the stories of resistance that took place there.
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright & Oral Historian: Nikki Yeboah
Direction & Design Oversight: Adrienne Mackey
Research Assistant: Sammy Weinert
For more info about the 11th & Pine oral history documentation process visit:
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