{"id":44538,"date":"2015-12-09T02:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44538"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:51:58","slug":"sock-and-buskins-new-production-combines-history-and-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44538","title":{"rendered":"Sock and Buskin\u2019s new production combines history and mysticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2015\/11\/16\/sock-and-buskins-new-production-combines-history-and-mysticism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sock and Buskin\u2019s new production combines history and mysticism<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Brown Daily Herald<\/a><br \/>\nProvidence, Rhode Island<br \/>\n2015-11-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Shook<\/strong>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry\u2019 examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/theatre-arts-performance-studies\/undergraduate\/sb-season\" target=\"_blank\">Sock and Buskin\u2019s<\/a> newest production \u201cThe Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,\u201d legend and history come together to present a portrait of mid-19th-century life from a segment of the American population not usually depicted: the Black Seminoles, a group of black and Native American people.<\/p>\n<p>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/theatre-arts-performance-studies\/marcus-gardley\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Gardley<\/a>, assistant professor in playwriting, and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/theatre-arts-performance-studies\/kym-moore\" target=\"_blank\">Kym Moore<\/a>, associate professor of theatre arts and performance studies, \u201cThe Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry\u201d follows a community of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Seminoles\" target=\"_blank\">Black Seminoles<\/a> forced to relocate from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trail_of_Tears\" target=\"_blank\">Trail of Tears<\/a>. There, they create a new community and culture that is entirely their own while struggling with their racial and cultural histories. The Black Seminoles also face continued rivalries both within their community and with the neighboring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muscogee\" target=\"_blank\">Creek tribe<\/a>. While the play depicts the plight of the diverse <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seminole\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole<\/a> community, it also incorporates a mystical undercurrent that allows for a more metaphorical interpretation of its larger themes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browndailyherald.com\/2015\/11\/16\/sock-and-buskins-new-production-combines-history-and-mysticism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sock and Buskin\u2019s new production combines history and mysticism The Brown Daily Herald Providence, Rhode Island 2015-11-16 Jennifer Shook, Staff Writer \u2018The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry\u2019 examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma In Sock and Buskin\u2019s newest production \u201cThe Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,\u201d legend and history come together to present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,459,3015,20],"tags":[3494,21416,22227,22226,16241,2322],"class_list":["post-44538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-history","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-black-seminoles","tag-brown-daily-herald","tag-jennifer-shook","tag-kym-moore","tag-marcus-gardley","tag-the-brown-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44539,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44538\/revisions\/44539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}