For the past 20 years, the Alliance Theatre’s Palefsky Collision Project has given high school students the opportunity to examine important social issues and create new works inspired by a certain literary or theatrical text. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s album “What’s Going On?,” students will explore the themes addressed in his music. Issues such as racial injustice, inner-city poverty, police brutality, and climate change are illustrated in his songs; many issues which still ring true today. “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke with the Alliance’s Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence Pearl Cleage about this year’s project and how the students will be working through Gaye’s legendary album.
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