Is God Is at Oakland Theater Project

“I wanna step on somethin’ for once. See what it feel like. Must feel good.”

OTP presents the Bay Area Premiere of Aleshea Harris’ multi-award-winning play Is God Is, directed by OTP Co-Artistic Director William Hodgson. After becoming a smash hit Off-Broadway in 2018 and a runaway success in London’s West End, this contemporary epic is finally making its Bay Area debut.

After receiving a letter from a mother they believed was dead, 21-year-old twins Racine and Anaia embark on an odyssey from the Northeast to the Dirty South to The Valley, on a mission to avenge their past. Harris weaves “the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk” (Relentless Award, 2016) in an unforgettable tale of two women seeing justice—and taking control their own narratives.