In Notre Dame Professor Joyelle McSweeney's award-winning, eco-farcical rewiring of The Tempest, Julian Assange pilots a hijacked containership full of Dead Youth towards Magnetic Island, planning to revive them/upload them onto the Internet; not one but two rival hijackers aims to thwart this mission, while presiding deity Henrietta Lacks looks on with grave displeasure.
This outrageous farce poses serious questions: Can justice survive the Anthropocene? Can justice survive on a planet riven with racial, gendered, economic, environmental, colonialist, and ableist inequalities? Contains adult or mature content.
Free, but ticketed event.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program, Gender Studies, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.
Originally published at english.nd.edu.