Duriel E. Harris' stellar Thingification showcases at MPAACT Summer Jams

CHICAGO - June 29, 2016 - PRLog -- Thingification: MPAACT Summer Jams
Saturday, July 30th, 2016    7:30 pm
Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Cost: $20 at the door. Advance tickets available at bit.ly/1Yu4v4L

Thingification (http://thingification.org) - written, composed, and performed by Duriel E. Harris - is a one-woman show combining poetry, performance, music and dance to invigorate audiences with the life-affirming energy of word-sound-power.

Set in Chicago in the contemporary moment, the play transports audiences through time-space to enact their collective struggle against thing-ification-the annihilating, objectifying force at the core of all oppressions.

Like blues music is played to stomp blues feeling, Thingification is performed to stomp thing-ification.

Duriel E. Harris is author of three poetry collections including the 2015 Nightboat Poetry Prize winning volume No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (forthcoming, 2017). She is also co-founder of Call & Response-a dynamic of Black women & performance-and the avant-garde poetry/performance trio the Black Took Collective. Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Harris is an associate professor of English in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Illinois State University.