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A San Francisco programmer, Will, latches onto an idea for a
startup that will automate the work teachers do in their
classrooms. But as the idea begins to take off, it becomes clear
that Will's new company may threaten his fiancee's job.
Zoe, a black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her
white professor's office to discuss her paper about slavery's
effect on the American Revolution. What begins as a polite clash in
perspectives explodes into an urgent debate about race, history,
and power.
Based at Shepherd University, in West Virginia, the Contemporary
American Theater Festival is nationally and internationally
recognized as a home for playwrights and the development and
production of new plays. The Festival makes it a priority to
celebrate and produce playwrights with strong, distinct voices,
with a core value to tell diverse stories. This anthology of work
provides plays that speak to one of the most compelling virtues of
artists everywhere - freedom of speech. A necessary volume of women
playwrights' work, ranging from a two-time Obie Award-winning
author to emerging writers just beginning their careers, it
represents a group of women who vary in age, race and sexual
orientation and offers an invitation to artistic leaders, scholars
and students to embrace gritty, thought-provoking new dramatic
work. Edited by The Festival's Producing Directors Peggy McKowen
and Ed Herendeen, this anthology features an introduction by
Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Each of the five powerful plays
is followed by an informative and discursive playwright interview
conducted by Sharon J. Anderson that contextualizes and develops
the works within the wider context of the annual festival. The
plays include: Gidion's Knot by Johnna Adams The Niceties by
Eleanor Burgess Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W Gregory Dead and
Breathing by Chisa Hutchinson 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller
At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student
and her esteemed white professor meet to discuss a paper the
college junior is writing about the American Revolution. They're
both liberal. They're both women. They're both brilliant. But very
quickly, discussions of grammar and Google turn to race and
reputation, and before they know it, they're in dangerous territory
neither of them had foreseen - and facing stunning implications
that can't be undone.
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