Overview
When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens when there’s no more outside space for the growing monster that is American racism?
Casting & Production
Casting
GINA — African-American, late-30s to early-40s. Female, hetero, snarky & fly. Gina is a social media activist. She’s afraid to leave her house.
DRU — African-American, 20s. Female, queer, no snark & also fly. Dru is a boots-on-the-ground activist. Afraid of not being out there in it.
Note: This is a play about African-American women and must be cast with Black women.
Setting
February 2020.
Somewhere during the Rona.
Gina’s home office aka her living room, on a quiet street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
