Undine Barnes Calles (Cherise Boothe) is a boutique public relations executive catering to the Black bourgeoisie. She wears gold jackets and leopard-print coats; her hair rests atop her head like a crown. When the play opens, she is sitting behind her desk, barking orders at her assistant (Nikiya Mathis) and scrambling to find a celebrity […]
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George (Austin Smith), steeped in European sensibility after a recent trip to France, returns to America to find a plantation he has inherited in financial peril. He’s caught the eye of the wealthy heiress Dora (Mary Wiseman), but his heart belongs to Zoe (Amber Gray), the eponymous daughter of his uncle and a slave. George’s eloquence […]
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