Long Wharf Theater in New Haven is participating in a unique national collaboration that looks at the issue of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival asked playwrights from around the country to reflect on the current civil rights issue and write a one-minute play about it.
The result is The Every 28 Hours Plays, a collection of more than 70 one-minute plays that reflects the many diverse perspectives of police brutality.
"They are separated into nine sections," said Elizabeth Nearing, Long Wharf's Community Relations Manager, "such as race, police, mothers, community, protest -- and the way we've organized it is each of those sections is being taken on by a different group here in New Haven."
New Haven-based civil rights and arts organizations have been working together on the plays for about eight weeks, as well as preparing some original New Haven stories.
The project gets its name from the viral and widely contested statistic that every 28 hours a black person is killed by a vigilante, a security guard, or by police in the U.S.
The Every 28 Hours Plays gets underway the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven on Friday night at 7:00.
