Artistic Statement
As an artist I am interested in the intersection of political, social and moral questions, and in using history as a lens for examining our lives and the larger world we live in.
For example, "Now's the Time," my latest full-length play, is about the failure of Reconstruction to create a new society of full racial equality -- how and why that happened and the terrible consequences, especially for Black Americans. It has been adapted as an open educational resource with a curriculum and film of the play (available at https://www.storyworkstheater.org/ntt) for use by teachers and students wanting to learn more about that period in US history.
My play HUNT uses the tragic story of US Senator Lester Hunt's blackmail and suicide in the early 1950s McCarthy/Cold War period to explore the state of American politics today and questions of our moral obligations, public and personal. It examines recurring challenges to us individually and to our representative institutions posed by extreme partisanship, demagoguery, demonization of gay Americans and other targeted groups for political advantage, and using national security to justify extraordinary means.
For example, "Now's the Time," my latest full-length play, is about the failure of Reconstruction to create a new society of full racial equality -- how and why that happened and the terrible consequences, especially for Black Americans. It has been adapted as an open educational resource with a curriculum and film of the play (available at https://www.storyworkstheater.org/ntt) for use by teachers and students wanting to learn more about that period in US history.
My play HUNT uses the tragic story of US Senator Lester Hunt's blackmail and suicide in the early 1950s McCarthy/Cold War period to explore the state of American politics today and questions of our moral obligations, public and personal. It examines recurring challenges to us individually and to our representative institutions posed by extreme partisanship, demagoguery, demonization of gay Americans and other targeted groups for political advantage, and using national security to justify extraordinary means.
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Jean P. Bordewich
Artistic Statement
As an artist I am interested in the intersection of political, social and moral questions, and in using history as a lens for examining our lives and the larger world we live in.
For example, "Now's the Time," my latest full-length play, is about the failure of Reconstruction to create a new society of full racial equality -- how and why that happened and the terrible consequences, especially for Black Americans. It has been adapted as an open educational resource with a curriculum and film of the play (available at https://www.storyworkstheater.org/ntt) for use by teachers and students wanting to learn more about that period in US history.
My play HUNT uses the tragic story of US Senator Lester Hunt's blackmail and suicide in the early 1950s McCarthy/Cold War period to explore the state of American politics today and questions of our moral obligations, public and personal. It examines recurring challenges to us individually and to our representative institutions posed by extreme partisanship, demagoguery, demonization of gay Americans and other targeted groups for political advantage, and using national security to justify extraordinary means.
For example, "Now's the Time," my latest full-length play, is about the failure of Reconstruction to create a new society of full racial equality -- how and why that happened and the terrible consequences, especially for Black Americans. It has been adapted as an open educational resource with a curriculum and film of the play (available at https://www.storyworkstheater.org/ntt) for use by teachers and students wanting to learn more about that period in US history.
My play HUNT uses the tragic story of US Senator Lester Hunt's blackmail and suicide in the early 1950s McCarthy/Cold War period to explore the state of American politics today and questions of our moral obligations, public and personal. It examines recurring challenges to us individually and to our representative institutions posed by extreme partisanship, demagoguery, demonization of gay Americans and other targeted groups for political advantage, and using national security to justify extraordinary means.