Daphne A. Brooks, professor of African American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University, will be guest speaker at Westport Country Playhouse’s Sunday Symposium following the Sunday, August 20, 3 p.m. matinee performance of “Appropriate,” an Obie Award-winning play about family secrets by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The Playhouse Sunday Symposium program is free and open to the public.
Brooks will engage in a conversation about the play with David Kennedy, Playhouse associate artistic director, and director of the production. Kennedy is the winner of Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Production of a Play for last season’s “The Invisible Hand.”
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