{"id":9295,"date":"2018-11-06T11:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:43:30","slug":"just-another-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/11\/06\/just-another-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet Show About Lynching Asks Audience \u2018Are They For Justice Or Do They Just Let Things Happen?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins\u2019s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,\u201d which will be performed at Brookline\u2019s Puppet Showplace Theater<\/a> this Thursday and Friday, Nov. 8 and 9, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

A hooded Klansman is at the wheel, and two others ride with their victim in the back. \u201cOne in the back has a rifle and he hits the guy with the rifle a couple times,\u201d Pipkins says. \u201cI wanted to depict it like it was entertainment to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show, Pipkins says, is “a story about a black man being lynched in 1921. It\u2019s told through his childhood friend, who happens to be white, and whose brother was part of the lynching. It\u2019s told at his funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on a handful of historical murders, the show tells the African American man\u2019s life story in flashbacks. It aims to prompt the question: What could the man\u2019s white friend done about the situation? \u201cFor people who see the show, are they for justice or do they just let things happen?\u201d Pipkins says. \u201cAnd why do they let things happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins\u2019s “Just Another Lynching.” (Courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Pipkins is in Boston, he\u2019s an artist-in-residence at Boston University. So he’ll also be participating in an \u201cAfrofuturism Panel Discussion\u201d<\/a> with Barrington Edwards of Studio Vexer and Joel Gill, a professtor at New Hampshire Institute of Art and creator of \u201cStrange Fruit Comics,\u201d on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Boston University\u2019s College of Arts & Sciences, 685 Commonwealth Ave., room B12. He\u2019ll lead puppet making workshops<\/a> on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., at Boston University\u2019s GSU Alley, 775 Commonwealth Ave., lower level. And he\u2019ll perform in the Boston University Puppet Slam<\/a> on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 8 p.m., at BU Central, 775 Commonwealth Ave., lower level. These Boston University events are free and open to the public, but registration is required<\/a>.<\/p>\n