Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Group Play

Audience members who attended Help, a new play by Claudia Rankine, at The Shed are invited to join one of these conversations, hosted on Zoom.

RSVP: Saturday, April 9, 12 – 1:15 pm ET
RSVP: Tuesday, April 12, 5 – 6:15 pm ET

Conversation Guide

Participants are asked to please download this guide to the conversation.

Accessibility

These conversations will include live captions.

In Zoom conversations programmed in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC), Help audience members are invited to join a conversation connecting what happens onstage and in society at large. Guided by a member of the BAC initiative Group Play, participants will identify the ways systemic oppression and hidden policies fuel the circumstances of the play, while building community with others who are interested in going deeper into the questions opened by Claudia Rankine’s investigation. Picking up where the play leaves off, these conversations will also help participants imagine their own roles in making antiracist change happen in the world.

Founded in 2016 by members of the Broadway community as a direct response to the nation’s pandemic of racism and police brutality, Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC) has since grown into a Tony Award-winning organization uniting artists with legal experts and community leaders to have a lasting impact on policy issues including criminal justice reform, education equity, and liberation within the theatrical industry.

Group Play fosters reflection, conversation, and action around what’s happening onstage in productions and its relationship to larger systemic issues outside the theater. Group Play guides participants through questions that have been curated specifically for the show’s themes and how it responds to and builds community around the fight against systems of oppression. This format is intended to create space for open and honest conversation between audiences, creatives, and a BAC representative. Group Play unlocks new discoveries and engagement with change work centered around pursuing transformative justice.