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Echoes of Trauma in Two Plays

by Vinson Cunningham

For "Zoetrope," viewers peer into a trailer to watch two lovers on lockdown talking past each other in well-educated millennialese; Bill Gunn's "The Forbidden City" follows a Black middle-class family in 1936.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 9:35am on May 17, 2021