This is a wickedly sharp look at race relations, territoriality and how tragedy transformed a fictional Chicago neighborhood. The story begins in a white enclave in 1959 where a family is moving out to escape the emotion turmoil of a recent tragedy. The buyers are black and the neighbors are up in arms. Fifty years later, the same house is sold again. This time the neighborhoodl is black and the buyers are white.
The play explores the oftentimes raw emotion of change and the friction of race relations in one of the country’s most segregated cities. Continue reading