The Public Theater

The Public Theater hosted this production by the Foundry Theater.

At the Museum of Antiquities, a panel discussion is taking place about the late Archer Ames, a controversial African-American writer-turned-activist whose final protest resulted in the destruction of some of the museum’s rare Greek artifacts. On the panel are a jazz musician, a talk show host, an avant-garde filmmaker, a professor, and a performance artist. The moderator is a young scholar whose interest in Ames turns out to be more than just academic. Some of the panelists knew Ames, some did not, but all jump in to argue over the smallest details of Ames’ life and work. The symposium becomes not only a forum for discussing the mysterious Ames, but a meandering tour through intellectual history from the Greeks to the present.

source: nytimes.com