The B-Side is an original performance based on the 1965 LP “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” a recording of work songs and spoken text from inmates on Texas’ then-segregated agricultural prison farms. 

Kevin Young is the poetry editor at The New Yorker and the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. He is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose. 

In this US premiere, Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy brilliantly merges live performance and filmmaking in what she describes as a "mirror game between theater and cinema." Her wildly acclaimed take on Anton Chekov's Three Sisters imagines the siblings hosting a house party in modern day Brazil--and the piece is seen by two audiences simultaneously, with each group experiencing it twice (in two very different ways.) 

Artist/filmmaker Sharon Lockhart returns to REDCAT with two films shot in Poland. Podwórka (31 min, 2009) is an exploration of the real and imaginary playgrounds children inhabit in the courtyards of Łódz.