Rastus and Hattie

by Lisa Langford

Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until two problematic Black robots (and a glitch in the time-space continuum) make them confront their ideas about race and the value of the past.

Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until two problematic Black robots (and a glitch in the time-space continuum) make them confront their ideas about race and the value of the past.

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Rastus and Hattie

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  • Emmet L.F. Cameron: Rastus and Hattie

    This play is brilliant. It takes a skilled hand to guide an audience through such a wild imagined landscape, keep them laughing, & make them face hundreds of years of violence & injustice all at the same time. Lisa Langford does all of the above & more here, deftly intertwining ideas of slavery-robotics-genetics-ancestry through the lives of characters that, while touched with the fantastic, feel absolutely real within the world of the play, & relatable to the world outside of it.

    This play is brilliant. It takes a skilled hand to guide an audience through such a wild imagined landscape, keep them laughing, & make them face hundreds of years of violence & injustice all at the same time. Lisa Langford does all of the above & more here, deftly intertwining ideas of slavery-robotics-genetics-ancestry through the lives of characters that, while touched with the fantastic, feel absolutely real within the world of the play, & relatable to the world outside of it.

  • Mackenzie Raine Kirkman: Rastus and Hattie

    More than any other modern playwright Langford knows how to use robots and messy time blimps to their absolute best by answering as few questions as she can about how they got in the play and focusing entirely on why they're in the play in the first place. It's a thing of beauty.

    More than any other modern playwright Langford knows how to use robots and messy time blimps to their absolute best by answering as few questions as she can about how they got in the play and focusing entirely on why they're in the play in the first place. It's a thing of beauty.

  • Craig Ester: Rastus and Hattie

    A beautifully creative meditation on the common trauma we share from America's difficult past. In addition to a wonderfully innovative premise, the show is also as funny as it is heart wrenching.

    A beautifully creative meditation on the common trauma we share from America's difficult past. In addition to a wonderfully innovative premise, the show is also as funny as it is heart wrenching.

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