Violent…Not I, 2016
performance (00:15:00)
Violent...Not I adopts the structure of Samuel Beckett's play Not I, and Malcom X’s Confronting White Oppression, delivered on Valentine's Day 1965 one week before he was murdered. Over 50 years later and through the lens of a Black female perspective, Malcolm's message still rings just as unsettling and accurate.
“Plenty of writers can write a play about a state of mind, but he (Samuel Beckett) actually put that state of mind on the stage, in front of your eyes.”
- Billie Whitelaw after working with Beckett
Shot by Amy Olivia Pierce, edited by Eleanor Kipping, live audio recorded by 91.9 WMEB at the University of Maine Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center, Copyright ® 2016 ELEANOR KIPPING