A play about "cause and effect" and how individual choices made in past can have far reaching effects on many others, far into the future.
It is the 1930s depression, Minneapolis, Minnesota. MAE WILLIAMS runs a boardinghouse to make ends meet.
Her boarders: a longtime friend and porter GENERAL, LENA who does day-work and 'another' type of work at night, and Mae's spoiled 30-year-old son BISHOP.
Mae's sisters MILLIE and GRACE come up from Alabama desperate to convince Mae to sign off on her portion of land, the family needs the cash the land will bring. In the midst of dealing with her present family issues, Mae is worried about her descendents. Her intuitive visions have made her very concerned about what she sees. She wills BRUCE a white blind psychic of the present (2004), to join her in the past in order to help her save her family of the future.
7 characters: 2 black males, 4 black females, 1 white male.
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"Justice at Hand"
(working title)
It is Louisville, Kentucky, 1932. JUSTICE and his parents have worked for a wealthy white woman named PANZY their whole lives. When his father dies, a deep dark family secret leaks out. Justice's white employer is actually his mother; the black woman who raised him, his aunt.
Justice must make a decision to leave Kentucky and the only family he has ever known or stay and help to rewrite his family's history.
This story touches on the color caste system within a black family. Justice's mother ANNA refuses to accept Justice's dark skin wife, RUTH and their 'too brown' baby. Due to her skin color, Anna's sister MADDIE fights a life long battle of inequality within her own family. Justice's friend and fellow worker CASPER, rounds out the cast. Based on a true story.
6 characters: 2 black males, 3 black females, 1 white female.
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