“Talk to Your People,” which plays at The Marsh through April 16, offers Dan Hoyle’s incarnation of seven characters grappling with the unholy trinity of race, class and power.
Dan Hoyle as one of the seven characters he brings to life in his new solo work, “Talk To Your People,” playing at The Marsh through April 16, 2022.
That changed in March 2020, when Hoyle was finishing the New York run of his fifth solo show, “Border People.” COVID hit and he found himself back in Alameda, waiting for the shutdown to end and witnessing the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests. A call came from theater director Tamilla Woodward, a friend and collaborator, who was among the original signatories of “,” a statement from Black and Brown thespians decrying the legacy and impact of racism.
Hoyle told her he had already done something like that through his 2010 one-man performance, “The Real Americans.” “Talk to Your People” is not meant to be a defining document of white liberals in 2021, said Hoyle. It’s a pandemic journey, an exercise in “turning the mirror back” and presenting “characters who are mumbling and fumbling and searching their way toward the truth.”
Hoyle seems aware that “Talk to Your People” is not the dress down signatories that “We See, You White American Theater” may have wanted. On the one hand, he acknowledges that white liberals often present a “social media and public-presenting stat sheet of our views and causes” that may not be authentic or deep. On the other hand, he has a hard time seeing liberal white people’s racial and class identity as a monolith.
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