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By Mat Smart | Directed by KenYatta Rogers

 

About


Brimming with modern urgency and relevance, The Agitators examines the friendship and occasional rivalry between two American icons—Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony. It’s 1849 and two young activists, full of optimism and ideals, steel themselves for the battles to come. Over the next 45 years, they journey from allies to adversaries and back. Theirs is a story of defiance, of rebellion, of revolution. They agitated the nation. They agitated each other. They changed the course of history.

 

OCT 24–NOV 25, 2018

Runtime: 2 hours with no one 15-minute intermission. 

 

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Press


“...timely and poignant.”

CurtainUp

“a rapturous mashup of musical and staging styles that blows the dust off history like there’s no yesterday.”

DC Metro Theater Arts

“director KenYatta Rogers assures a caring and careful connection between the two characters as they battle through the minefields of racism and social inequality, urging society to Listen to each other — Words Matter.”

DC Theatre Scene

“As Frederick Douglass, Ro Boddie brings a quiet strength and a public gravitas…”

Broadway World

 
 

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