Nanfu Wang explains why a community theater production was crucial for examining the crime that tore apart a small town.
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Finding a way to help Beatrice tell the story to itself became the next challenge, and so the idea of a community theater performance was born.
For the next few months, we rehearsed with the actors every evening for four hours. We reenacted the interrogations and debated the characters’ motivations, their wants and desires, while taking their very specific circumstances into consideration. Night after night, through these discussions and debates, I witnessed people’s minds opening up and their opinions shifting.
The next 90 minutes felt long. I listened carefully and anxiously. I heard nervous laughter, slight scorn, heavy sighs and quiet weeping. When the lights came up, there was a pause, followed by sustained applause.
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