#   Confronting campus issues from the stage 

 





September 21, 2016

 

 

The Bok Players - an interactive theatre ensemble - were featured in the Harvard Gazette, highlighting a recent performance a the New Faculty Institute. The article, by writer Jill Radsken, highlights a recent performance a the New Faculty Institute: > When Professor Douglas asked students in his course “The Emergence of an Early American Identity” to examine a piece of Revolutionary War-era art, the first response came from Oliver, who described the image as “one Indian sitting on a box by himself.”
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>  His classmate Kia rolled her eyes. “I think it’s weird that we’re calling Native Americans Indians,” she said.
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>  The encounter — and the class — were imagined, a theatrical sketch created by the Bok Center Players, a Harvard-based ensemble that uses the stage to address challenging topics such as race, gender, and identity.

 [Read more at the Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/09/confronting-campus-issues-from-the-stage/)



 



 

 

 



 

 

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