Ava Blum, a 14-year-old freshman at Georgetown Day High School, recently took home first place in the English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition. A resident of Washington D.C.’s The Palisades neighborhood, Blum was first exposed to William Shakespeare when she read Julius Caesar in school and soon after entered her first Shakespeare monologue completion. “I decided […]
Archives for May 14, 2020
Viral Monologues’ series “COVID AND INCARCERATION” hard truths, powerful telling
“We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces,” says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as the character in Shakira Senghor’s play A Father’s Sorrow. It is one of the 15 new plays in “COVID and Incarceration,” a special […]