Overview
This conceptual performance piece takes inspiration from West African philosophy, which emphasized a non-objective and participatory approach to the arts. In the original 1966 production, Chebo Evan's Third World Three Black music trio improvised jazz against a background of rattling chains, moans, and groans while performers crept under seats and grabbed at people's ankles. The play asks its audience to think of Blackness as removed from the physical body, and instead view Blackness in space.