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6 days agoHope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory
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"I don't think that we've actually fully recovered from that moment. I know I haven't," playwright Julius Ernesto Rea said. Rea said coming together in a physical space and going back in time gives the actors and the audience the opportunity to release some of their bottled-up emotions, especially those surrounding the changing climate. "A lot of the play is trying to figure out how we grieve the future that we thought we had, so that we can invite new visions of the future," Rea said.