The 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer in drama examines a tumultuous and transitional time in American history
a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer in drama, examines a tumultuous and transitional time in American history through an unexpected and affective lens.
Jim Crow segregation and racial violence is raging in the South, Emmett Till has just been brutally murdered, the fires of civil rights battles are starting to ignite. But Davis brings us 2,500 miles away from Birmingham, Alabama, and sets her play in the sleepy Northern California backwater of Boonville. There we meet a few locals hanging around a brothel while anticipating the annual apple harvest festival and dance.
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