Insurrection: Holding History
Revised Edition
A boldly theatrical time travel epic from one of the premier chroniclers of Black gay life in the American theatre.
In Robert O’Hara’s stunning debut play, gay Black grad student Ron is transported back in time with his 189-year-old great-great-grandfather to the time of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion. Applying a thrilling theatrical lens to some of the darkest chapters of American history,Insurrection: Holding History is an investigation of the scars of racism and homophobia, as well as a passionate tribute to the power of resistance. This play won O’Hara the1998 Oppenheimer Award for Best New Playwright.
Insurrection: Holding History received its world premiere at The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in 1996. It is the third title in the TCG Books Illuminations series, edited by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Robert O’Hara was recently nominated for a Tony for his direction of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, the most Tony-nominated play in the history of Broadway. He also directed its world premiere at New York Theater Workshop. Other directing credits include the world premiere musical Bellaby Kirsten Childs at Playwrights Horizons, Macbeth at Denver Center for Performing Arts, world premieres of Nikkole Salter and Danai Guiria’s In The Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy as well as his own plays, Mankind, Bootycandy, and Insurrection: Holding History. He received his Directing M.F.A. from Columbia University.
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