Pope.L gets conceptual with slavery play at Drawing Center

Ahead of his show at New Yorks Drawing Center in 2018, the artist Pope.L held a workshop this summer with writers, curators and others to preview and discuss his staging of a play written by a former slave.The Escape; Or, A Leap to Freedom, which will run continuously for the six weeks the show is open, was written in 1858 by William Wells Brown, a contemporary and rival ofas Pope.L described himFreddy D (aka, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass). The play seems Shakespearean in its treatment o