In actor and author Wendell Pierce's book, "The Wind In The Reeds" about post-Katrina New Orleans, he recounts his experience acting in the play "Waiting For Godot" and how it resonated with Lower Ninth Ward residents who had lost everything.<\/p>\n
The play's director, Paul Chan, asked if it helped achieve social justice or political change, replied that it did not:<\/p>\n
It brought people together, yes, but he was trying to bring about "articulate speechlessness." He went on: "My mind was cleared for something else to happen, which I think is what art does. If you do it right, that's what happens."<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In actor and author Wendell Pierce's book, "The Wind In The Reeds" about post-Katrina New Orleans, he recounts his experience acting in the play "Waiting For Godot" and how it resonated with Lower Ninth Ward residents who had lost everything. The play's director, Paul Chan, asked if it helped achieve social justice or political change, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}