Part tribunal of evidence — guided and constrained by the statutory powers of the “Interrogator” — and part ritualistic psychodynamic investigation of a sovereign polity toward emotional and restorative justice involving a collective of accused citizenry. This new multimedia performance in development by Carl Hancock Rux, with dramaturgy by Jocelyn Clarke, creates a philosophical convening of characters engaged in a recalling of crimes against humanity and its effect on their personal, historical and psychological development – as they endeavor to unlearn the language and varying rituals of whiteness – a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people.

Development support for Etudes has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Venturous Theater Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation.