March 9, 2020 at 7 PM: The Submission, by Jeff Talbott.
Shaleeha G’ntamobi’s stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation’s preeminent theatre festival. Trouble is Shaleeha G’ntamobi doesn’t exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who created her as a kind of affirmative-action pen name. But witness protection may prove more useful as the lies pile up, shaky alliances are forged, and everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily-white face.
“The Submission is a raw, unsentimental play about race and gender that exposes the quiet prejudice and intolerance among even our most progressive thinkers. It is both uncomfortable and impossible to not watch.”
Rating: PG-15. Strong adult language
Tickets on Sale starting December 3, 2019
Cast of Readers include: Patrick Earl Phillips*, Jeremy Todd Farley, Dylan C. Digel and Candice Handy*
Directed by Scott Stoney+
April 27th Reading: To Be Announced
Sponsors
Scott Stoney and Kevin Moore
Pat and David Diven
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
+Resident Artist of The Human Race Theatre Company.