The Essentialisn't

The sharp-minded Eisa Davis, whose plays include the memoir Angela’s Mixtape and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Bulrusher, worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on last year's musical concept album Warriors. At HERE she strikes off on her own as the writer, director and star of a piece that interrogates the positioning and perception of Black bodies while rejecting the idea that any person can be reduced to an immalleable essence. The show incorporates striking physical imagery as well as original electrosoul music.