BUWG & WOCC Meet Up: The Bluest Eye
Please join us for a BUWG & WOCC Meet Up!
The Huntington Theatre
“The Bluest Eye”
Novel by Toni Morrison
Script by Lydia R. Diamond | Directed by Awoye Timpo
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
7:30pm performance
The Huntington Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts*
527 Tremont Street, Boston
Important: Please read the Huntington’s COVID compliance requirements to attend events.
Tickets: 20 tickets are available for a reduced ticket price of $55 (normally $69).
To order your ticket, contact Karen Murphy (kdmurphy@bu.edu) by Tuesday, February 22 at noon. She will be collecting the money directly to purchase the tickets. All members of the University Community are welcome.
Join Us in Giving: Please consider making a donation to the BUWG endowment and our worthwhile mission of investing in the future of talented and hard-working women scholars.
*Limited parking is available nearby, but you may have better luck at the Back Bay station garage. It’s a 10-minute walk from Back Bay station along Clarendon Street to Tremont Street. More information is available on the BCA website about parking options.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Celebrate the legacy of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison and see her classic debut novel come to life. Boston favorite Lydia Diamond (Stick Fly, Smart People at The Huntington, former assistant professor of Playwriting and Theatre Arts at the Boston University School of Theatre) adapts the book with grace and subtlety. The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola, a young Black girl who believes the world would be wonderful if she could have blue eyes. Enthralling, gorgeously written, and incredibly emotional, The Bluest Eye is an American touchstone.
Director Awoye Timpo is inspired by the storytelling traditions of Black rituals. Audiences will be seated in a circle surrounding the actors, and the experience will create a space for provocation, remembrance and healing. In Awoye’s words, “Coming together in a circle to tell a story is essential to our humanity. That’s what we’re inviting the community into with The Bluest Eye.”
The Bluest Eye plays in approximately one hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.
