By Linda Chin

DO NOT MOVE STONES – Performed live at the Settlement Quarry, Deer Isle, Maine in August 2021. Anna Fitzgerald and Marvin Merritt IV, Co-writers and Co-Directors, Lemmons, Composer, Angie Stemp, Costume Designer, Alexander Turanski, Set Designer, Oliver Randall, Videographer, Jay Michaud, Audio Engineer, Ian Cust, Audio Technician.

In the last nineteen months, theater companies across the country have been beleaguered by the parallel pandemics of coronavirus and structural racism. Theatres cancelled performances and painfully pivoted into unfamiliar virtual territory, furloughed staff and filled out applications for relief funds, crafted COVID safety compliance and diversity, inclusion and equity plans. Sadly, the casualties have started to mount; Watertown MA’s New Repertory Theatre suspended operations for the 2021-22 season, and NYC’s The Lark Theatre, a leader in incubating new plays and championing playwrights of color, is closing after 25 years. For many theater artists the lack of employment opportunities, increased responsibilities on the home front, and weight of everything going on in the world has resulted in creative pauses.

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