This image released by Amazon Content Services shows Kara Young, left, and Mallori Johnson in a scene from “Is God Is.” (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services via AP)
This image released by Amazon Content Services shows Kara Young, from left, Vivica A. Fox and Mallori Johnson in a scene from “Is God Is.” (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services via AP)
This image released by Amazon Content Services shows Kara Young, left, and Mallori Johnson in a scene from “Is God Is.” (Patti Perret/Amazon Content Services via AP)
As playwright Aleshea Harris tells it, something felt missing when she first sat down to write her searing and startling play “Is God Is,” which made waves off-Broadway in 2018.
Harris was writing an epic story of Black female revenge, one that drew on Greek tragedy and mythology, but also spaghetti westerns and a liberal dose of Quentin Tarantino, among other things. There was a hero character, but it wasn’t enough. That’s when Harris realized it should be a story of sisters. Twin sisters.
