A daring one-man show by Gerrad Alex Taylor
What does it mean for a Black actor to stand on a classical stage—and who gets to decide what that performance should look like?
In ""I Know How to Curse,"" writer-performer Gerrad Alex Taylor uses the twisted framework of the Three-Act Minstrel Show to expose and examine the quiet violence of respectability politics, performative allyship, and the ongoing erasure of Black bodies in the Western dramatic canon.
This bold solo piece unearths the ghost of minstrelsy in American theater while reimagining what it means for Black performers to fully inhabit the flawed, complex, messy, glorious roles that the canon has long kept from them. At once biting, vulnerable, and sharply theatrical, this show is a reclamation and re-blackening of Shakespeare—and a searing call to rethink who belongs in the spotlight.