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(Un)Drinkable
Open-Door Playhouse
English - February 07, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.39 MB - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts theater performing arts playwrights drama plays lgbq social matters new playwrights Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In 2014, Flint, Michigan changed the source of its water supply. This resulted in the
contamination of its drinking and bathing water, causing a dozen fatalities and sickening dozens more. The changes in the water supply were motivated by the greed of a few people in power and by systemic racism: The city was 54% Black.
(UN)Drinkable stars Barika Phillips Bell, JayCee Porter, and Sue Gisser. Bernadette
Armstrong directs.
Dana Hall is the playwright. Her previous plays include Underneath; All Grown Up; No
More Flowers; Me, Myself, and Moscato; The Reason for Dad Jokes; The Origin of Zeke Wolf; and many more. The Illinois-based writer is also an actor and voice artist.
(UN)Drinkable is one of several plays specifically curated by Open-Door Playhouse for
presentation during Black History Month (February).
Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors, and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception, Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody. In 2023, the play What's Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.