KPBS arts reporter cinebeth talks to Kata Pierce-Morgan — a businesswoman, a dancer, a writer, an activist and a COVID-19 survivor — about 'Bones Abide,' which debuts Sunday at her Les Girls Theater.
"I realized that, rather than being in front of the mayor and the police review board and that kind of thing, I prefer to do it through art," Pierce-Morgan said."And so I started creating these shows, which I think reached a broader spectrum of people. And, as they learned more about what Les Girls was — that we were a place of social activism. And so Les Girls is a perfect place for speaking out, and our saying is: 'Not a silent bystander.
Pierce-Morgan wrote the play before the pandemic and managed to get one in-person rehearsal done before everything shut down. "Then COVID came and just knocked us into the hard sidewalk of reality," Pierce-Morgan said."We had to stop, and we did all our rehearsing on Zoom. We did not expect that I would come down with severe COVID, and so it was difficult for me, but it was especially difficult for the cast to be dealing with a show about genocide and a true story while the pandemic was going on. And so they were so entwined together.
"Bones Abide" will have its first Fringe performance on Sunday and then additional performances on June 10, 11 and 12. Tickets are available
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