New WORLD Theater: It Is the Seeing by Renita Martin with Baba Israel
It Is the Seeing is a retrospective of war – the war that is raging in the United States. HIV/AIDS infection, breast cancer, substance abuse, physical and emotional violence, and incarceration ravage our communities. Poor people, people of color, women, gays and lesbians have been engaged in quiet battles, many lives have been lost, more have been wounded. Based on poems written by Renita Martin over the last fifteen years, the piece bears witness to these times and the battles that continue. It blends poetry, music, movement, beat boxing and hip-hop, which has thumped a constant bassline to these struggles.
