EPISODE · Aug 24, 2020 · 10 MIN
Black in Miami—Then and Now
from Fresh Art International · host Cathy Byrd
In this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Ben Vinarski and Reese McMichael venture to an abandoned hotel in Miami Beach to go behind the scenes of an immersive theater production. Inside a room designed as the well-equipped kitchen of an upper-class home, actress Maggie B. Maxwell has just rolled out a pie crust while introducing her visitors to the city’s Black history. Producers: Reese McMichael and Ben Vinarski/Miami Moves Me, Jahné King/FreshArtINTL Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio Related Episodes: Miami Moves Me/Maggie Maxwell’s Motel Story, Fresh Art Student Edition, Fresh Voices Miami, Black in America Related Links: Miami Moves Me Podcast, Fresh Art Distance Learning Guide, Juggerknot Theater Company, Miami Theater Review
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The Broadmoor Hotel on Miami's North Beach served as the setting for Juggerknot Theater Company's 2020 Miami Motel Stories. This vivid example of immersive theater was designed to take audience participants back in time, to experience Miami in the 1960s. Maggie B. Maxwell, who studied theater and political science, plays the role of a domestic servant in the North Beach production. In this conversation, she talks about the realities of being Black in Miami then and now.
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