APR 8 - MAY 6 | Virtual

Called “Sharply directed, incredibly well-acted, and absolutely of-the-moment” by WGBH’s Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen, Company One’s Hype Man: a break beat play asks: who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice? This newly reimagined version of the Elliot Norton Award-winning play by poet and playwright Idris Goodwin (How We Got On) follows a rapper, a beat-maker, and a hype man on the verge of making it big when the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager shakes the interracial hip-hop trio to the core and forces them to navigate issues of friendship, race, and protest.

Hype Man: a break beat play was developed by Goodwin with Company One Theatre.

By Idris Goodwin
Directed by Shawn LaCount
Film Direction by John Oluwole ADEkoje
Presented in collaboration with Company One Theatre and American Repertory Theater.

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Post-Show Conversation with Lisa Simmons and John Oluwole ADEkoje
Roxbury International Film Festival Director Lisa Simmons and Hype Man Film Director John Oluwole ADEkoje sit down for a conversation on April 15 at 9PM ET following the evening performance of Hype Man.