A Return to “Artivism”!
WWTAS is a one woman comedic deconstruction of the American past and present to engage a Black future.
What Would the Ancestors Say is a new one-woman show from the humorously brilliant mind of Ms. Amanda Seales. At this critical time of miseducation running rampant while disinformation has become the norm, the artistic intellectual uses comedy to edutain audiences in her unique voice. Blending all her hyphens, over the course of 90min at the mic she interweaves history telling and social commentary through stand up comedy, poetry and song shining a black light on insights that reveal racial residue that can no longer go unaddressed.. Dipping into her acting bag she gives voice to characters of our cultural past. Confronting antagonists of our critical present she asks audiences irreverent questions like, “how’d The Panthers get their berets”, “how does Clarence Thomas greet every day” “what exactly are the, “here, ni**A damn!” laws”, “are you the type that Harriet Tubman would shoot if she came back” and more! This illuminating and important solo-piloted production hilariously cuts through the noise recalibrating our understanding of the Black past, present, and future in the United States of America.