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Graduate playwriting student Cary Simowitz spent a week workshopping his play &quot;Djarum Vanilla&quot; at the annual Kennedy Center New Play Festival. The play focuses on how the 2014 Darren Wilson verdict impacted St. Louis. (Lisa Aubry/Daily Bruin)

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Graduate student&#8217;s play examines privilege, brutality and enduring injustice

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Cary Simowitz’s law school colleagues skipped exams to protest the 2014 Darren Wilson verdict in the streets – he wrote a play about the issue instead.

https://dailybruin.com/2018/09/03/graduate-students-play-examines-privilege-brutality-and-enduring-injustice/

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Graduate student’s play examines privilege, brutality and enduring injustice

By Lisa Aubry

Sept. 3, 2018 8:30 p.m.