Elevator Repair Service
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
Dates
fri 20 may 2022 - 20:00
sat 21 may 2022 - 20:00
location
Rode zaal
price
€ 28, 30 (standard) / € 25, 28 (65+) / € 22, 25 (-35) / € 10 (-19 years)
duration
1h language
spoken language English . surtitles in Dutch
Elevator Repair Service portrays the historic debate between Baldwin and Buckley
The Afro-American writer James Baldwin was plucked from obscurity in 2016 in the wake of the documentary I'm not your negro by Raoul Peck. The film explores the history of racism in the United States, through Baldwin’s chronicled memoires of activists including his friend Martin Luther King. The American theatre company Elevator Repair Service links in with this renewed alertness to latent racism. In Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, director John Collins portrays a historic debate that took place in 1965 at the English university between Baldwin and William F. Buckley. After graduating from Yale, this American conservative political commentator and defender of segregation joined the CIA. The confrontation between the two intellectuals was entitled "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" As always with Elevator Repair Service, this is spoken-word theatre of the purest kind. Every word counts.
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