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X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation at The Acting Company

Dates: (1/16/2018 - 2/25/2018 )

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Marcus Gardley; music: Justin Ellington; dir: Ian Belknap.

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In X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation, witnesses give testimonies that bleed into flashbacks, and the play, blurring the real and the half-remembered and giving voice to subjective truths, pieces together its version of the events leading up to the day of Malcolm X's assassination at Washington Heights' Audubon Ballroom. Shabazz prosecutes Malcolm X's former ally Louis X (inspired by now-Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan), whom she adamantly felt was involved in the assassination plot against her husband. He resists her interpretation, calling upon his own witnesses, and instead casting suspicion upon the FBI and NYPD, for whom Malcolm X's bodyguard Eugene Roberts was an informant. Gardley's play, in its courtroom limbo setting, examines the growing adversity between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, the constricting weight of white supremacist society, and the potentials of the behemoth institutions that uphold it to distort any story.

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