The Minutes - Post-Show Resources

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These resources are recommended for audiences after attending The Minutes

Book

The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend

The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece."

Podcast

WNYC's All of It Podcast: Writer and Actor Tracy Letts Discusses His Broadway Show The Minutes

(On line between laughing at racist people): "It's a dangerous line to walk. It's the dangerous line this play walks. It's worth it to me to walk that line because I'm ultimately getting to [...] something larger and darker and deeper about the soul of this country and the sins of this country.

"I like creating something that creates discussion, creates debate, that people can really occupy a couple of different points of view when they talk about the play, and what the play is after."

Articles

Newsweek: Tracy Letts Talks About The Minutes

"As we've continued to work on the play, we have made sure that I've consulted with Native voices. There are no Native characters on stage, but we've consulted with those voices just to make sure that we're saying what we want to say in the way that we want to say it. And we've had very positive response to all that.

"Cultural appropriation is actually one of the themes that the play gets into a little bit. I feel pretty confident that we're not blindly stumbling into some problematic area. We've really stepped into the problematic area, and the play kind of takes it on. That's in some ways, what the play is all about."

The Boston Globe: Concord's Umbrella Stage Company Keeps Stepping Up

The Minutes is the latest instance of the Concord-based theater company fashioning a sharper identity, say critic Don Aucoin, in this expansive overview of the evolution and growth of The Umbrella Stage Company 

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National Indigenous Women's Resource Center

The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Inc. (NIWRC) is a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. 

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