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Outdoor Film: Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Millennium Stage Outdoors 2700 F Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20566 United States (map)

Join us for a FREE film screening outdoors on the REACH Video Wall. Films start at dusk and no tickets or registration required.

Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence) tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play "The Peculiar Patriot" was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison. Directed and edited by Cinque Northern, produced by Catherine Gund, featuring Liza Jessie Peterson and Norris Henderson (Peterson and Henderson are also Executive Producers), the film examines how one woman's play challenged the country's largest plantation prison and impacted the incarcerated men long after the record of her visit was erased by the institution's administration.

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