Gabriel Dotto, Director of the Michigan State University Press, moderates a roundtable discussion which concludes a symposium entitled, Dramatization and Context: a Symposium and Roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music history written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Panelists are: Director John Lepard (Executive Director of the William Theatre); Aaron Todd Douglas (actor, director and part-time faculty at Loyola University Chicago); Rita Kiki Edozie (Associate Professor and Director of African American and African Studies at MSU); Rob Roznowski (MSU Department of Theatre); John Woodford (writer and executive editor of ‘Michigan Today’ retired); playwright Sandra Seaton. Speakers comment on the many challenges found in interpreting, directing and staging the play and how the work makes the black experience accessible and understandable to the audience. Questions and answers are interspersed throughout the discussion.
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