Overview
This haunting, provocative play sheds light on the similarities between racism and homophobia in Nazi Germany and the American South when a black, gay, transgender prisoner escapes Germany only to find themselves embroiled in the racially-charged hotbed of 1939 Atlanta, Georgia.
-from Playwrights Horizons
Casting & Production
Casting
CHARACTERS:
SARAH ROCA
EDNA BLACK ROCK
OSKAR von SCHLEICHER
GABRIEL GIFT
ARIEL ROCA
Setting:
The LIVING ROOM of the Roca Household in a “Plantation” home. ATLANTA, late 1930’s.CONNECTED TO The LIBRARY of Commandant von SCHLEICHER in a Detention Center. GERMANY, late 1930’s.It is important that the two Settings “read” as One Home.An ATLANTA and GERMANY “bleeding” into one another in the late 1930’s.
