TCG Books Publishes IS GOD IS/WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN by Aleshea Harris

Theatre Communications Group has announced the publication of Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down by Aleshea Harris. Is God Is had its world premiere at Soho Rep. in the winter of 2018. The play later opened at The Royal Court in London in the fall of 2021. What to Send Up When It Goes Down received its world premiere at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles in the fall of 2015. The play received its New York premiere by The Movement Theatre Company at A.R.T./New York Theatres in the fall of 2018.

An explosive epic that examines the cyclical nature of violence, Is God Is follows twin sisters who undertake a dangerous journey to exact revenge upon their father at the behest of their dying mother.

"Aleshea Harris turns theater into a monument, ephemeral but real, to ongoing pain. You can't tear down a statue that never shows up outside." -Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker on What to Send Up...

What to Send Up When It Goes Down is a play-pageant-ritual response to anti-Blackness in America. It is a challenge to us all: to heal through expression, expulsion, and movement.

Aleshea Harris's Is God Is won the Relentless Award and an Obie Award. What to Send Up When It Goes Down was published in American Theatre magazine and received a special commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Harris's awards include the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Hermitage Greenfield Prize, and The Horton Foote Prize.

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