"RODNEY KING" screening followed by conversation - SummerStage Anywhere

SummerStage Anywhere

  • Free
"RODNEY KING" film conversation with Roger Guenveur Smith and Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste
in association with DoNYC

Thursday, February 11, 2021

7:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Airing on SummerStageAnywhere.org, SummerStage YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitch

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Free digital access available until February 28 at 9 PM ET

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About

This conversation will focus on the 2017 film “Rodney King” directed by Spike Lee, featuring the Bessie-Award winning solo performance shot at SummerStage in Manhattan’s East River Park, and will feature the writer and star of the film Roger Guenvuer Smith and academic, author, and performance artist Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste. They will dive into the performance’s early improvisational roots, international theatrical runs, and its screen adaptation, focusing on the continued resonance of Rodney King in a new decade that has been tragically fraught with unresolved issues of state-sanctioned violence. The film gives voice to the man at the center of the brutal police beating that helped fuel the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. The film is currently streaming on Netflix and is also available to watch for free until 2/28 at 9 PM ET.

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