THIS IS NOT THE PLAY

CLEVELAND PULIC THEATER

directed by Emily Ritger

photos by Steve Wagner

CREATIVE TEAM

Written by Chisa Hutchinson

Directed by Emily Ritger

Scenic Designer — Inda Blatch­Geib

Costume Designer — Carolyn Dickey

Lighting Designer — Gregory S. Falcione

Mike Tutaj – Sound Designer

Featuring — Katrice Headd, Rebecca Frick, Jessica Annunziata, Bobby Coyne, and Laura Staring

 

DESCRIPTION

A gritty, in­-your­-face comedy that digs into what we naturally turn away from, racism. “This Is Not the Play” imagines a black playwright trying to write a play about white people. The problem is that the characters seem to have minds of their own. The playwright sends in her agent to interrogate the characters and then she tries to intervene as they expose their pathetically racist and patently disempowered viewpoints. Is this the playwright’s reflection on racism, or on her own prejudice? Second US production.