Review: "Bound" Explores the Bonds of Family, Land, and History from a Native Perspective
Bound Written and directed by Tara Moses Presented by AMERINDA at Theatre for the New City 155 First Avenue at 10th Street, Manhattan, NYC April 25 – May 12, 2019 Dylan Carusona and Elizabeth Rolston. Photo credit: Joe Velez Near the end of Bound , the new play from Tara Moses, when activist Marigold Page (Elizabeth Rolston) says, “I think I got my point across. Hopefully they’ll listen…,” she could be articulating the mission of the play itself. Presented by American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA), a Native arts organization founded in 1987 and the only one of its kind in the United States, Bound focuses on issues of Indigenous tribal sovereignty. Moses, a writer, director, and citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, uses current governmental calls for a border wall and inhumane crackdowns in the name of border security to demonstrate that such developments are not so much ripped-from-the-headlines issues as they are continuations of longstanding, officia...