Category: This Place/Displaced
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Gentrification by the Numbers
What’s Happening and How to Help by Tom King Artists’ Theater of Boston developed This Place/Displaced to raise awareness of and create action surrounding gentrification, displacement, and related systemic injustices facing Boston-area communities. Housing in Boston How many hours would you have to work each week to afford to live in Massachusetts? If you earn MA minimum […]
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An Interview with Actor Blair Nodelman
Meet Blair Nodelman, one of seven amazing actors working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Blair to find out a little bit more about her experience rehearsing This Place/Displaced. Join us at Charlestown Working Theater August 17-25 for This […]
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An Interview with Playwright MJ Halberstadt
Meet MJ Halberstadt, Antarctica enthusiast, educator, and just one of seven playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We touched base with MJ to learn about his play, Kung Pao Something, and what it was like to write based on interviews. Join us […]
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Tenement Tourism: Housing as a Microcosm of Discrimination
In this special guest blog, Actor Blair Nodelman talks frankly about how race and gender privilege have affected her family’s immigration and housing journeys and why This Place/Displaced feels important to her now. In 1913, my great-grandfather immigrated from Russia to the United States at only three years old. He arrived on Ellis Island, clutching […]
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What Does Home Mean to You?
(Featured image: Unbothered by the rainstorm outside, my cat Dexter sleeps on the radiator in my childhood home.) For this blog, I asked some This Place/Displaced actors and production team members to answer a simple, open-ended question: What does home mean to you? I worried that perhaps the question was too broad or would inspire […]
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An Interview with Playwright Jaymes Sanchez
Meet Jaymes Sanchez, playwright, educator, and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Jaymes to find out a little bit more about his play, Who Owns What, and what this project means to […]
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An Interview with Playwright Livian Yeh
Meet Livian Yeh, award-winning playwright, translator extraordinaire, and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Livian to find out a little bit more about her play, What Happens in this House, and what […]
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(Re)Thinking Gentrification
ATB is thrilled to introduce you all to Ronel JF Remy, one of our community partners for This Place/Displaced! Originally from Haiti, Ronel has lived in the US for over 20 years, making his home in Boston neighborhoods including Dorchester, Somerville, Hyde Park and Roslindale. After seven moves due to rent increases and other housing […]
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An Interview with Playwright Manuel Aquiles Lopez Torres
Meet Manuel Aquiles Lopez Torres, artistic entrepreneur and just one of eight playwrights working on ATB’s new documentary theatre project This Place/Displaced, to give voice to stories of displacement, gentrification, and housing inequity in Boston. We chatted with Mani to find out a little bit more about his play, Small Up Yuhself (Move Over), and what […]
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Engaging with Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City’
To expand and contextualize our knowledge of housing inequity, ATB members will engage with relevant media before, during, and after our production of This Place/Displaced. Below, find Julia’s review of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize winning ethnography, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City.” Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted” opens with an anecdote and an allegory: a […]