Opinion: ‘Pass Over’ opens deep conversations we need to have in Memphis
“Pass Over” is scheduled to run at Circuit Playhouse from Sept. 16 to Oct. 9. (The Daily Memphian file)
Jonathan Judaken
Jonathan Judaken is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes College. He recently co-edited a collection of articles to celebrate the bicentennial, "Memphis: 200 Years Together."
High rates of crime largely go uncontextualized, rarely correlated to the long-enduring patterns of poverty found on many corners in Memphis. But Pass Over dramatizes these issues so that we can talk about them.
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