Musical on Trayvon Martin is in the works.

[cpgrad08]

Because the world really need this. :roll::roll:

Saint Trayvon: The Musical! Play Attempts To Whitewash A Thug's Death

Trayvon Martin has often been in the thoughts of playwright and activist Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj in the four years since the 17-year-old unarmed black boy was shot and killed after a confrontation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.
He has wondered about Martin’s dreams, his life and the moments before he died.
Maharaj has channeled those thoughts into a two-hour play debuting Thursday at Philadelphia’s New Freedom Theater. “The Ballad of Trayvon Martin,” co-written with Thomas Soto, explores the idea of the dangerous consequences for black boys and men of being perceived as a threat through the lens of Martin, whose death in Sanford, Florida, on Feb. 26, 2012, was a galvanizing event for many black Americans and seen by some as the nascent origins of the Black Lives Matter movement underway across the country.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Because the world needs this, really it does... :roll:

 

[TheGoverness]

Eh, whatever floats their boat I guess. If they want to do this then that's fine with me.

 

[Skeptic Bob]

Since when does necessity have anything to do with what plays are made?

 

[shrubnose]

Since when does necessity have anything to do with what plays are made?

"Necessity is the mother of invention." ~ Plato

Since the Greeks started writing them,I guess.

:lol:

 

[Mason66]

Because the world really need this. :roll::roll:

Saint Trayvon: The Musical! Play Attempts To Whitewash A Thug's Death

I bet the truth will be sorely missing in this play.

From the OP

"explores the idea of the dangerous consequences for black boys and men of being perceived as a threat through the lens of Martin"

In this case he wasn't perceived as a threat, he actually was a threat.