We watched this a couple weeks ago on Disney + and I could not believe how deeply it moved me. Hamilton is one of the most incredible pieces of art I have seen in any medium. We watched the play on a television screen, completely removed from the ‘room where it happened’ and it was still unbelievable. The wheels within wheels of meta-representation is staggering. Perhaps the most impactful aspect of the play is the simplest. Telling a white American origin story through the language of hip-hop played exquisitely by black and brown Americans. Lin Manuel Miranda, his original cast and crew are geniuses. The United States can still be a shining light on a hill when our best and brightest produce work like Hamilton.
