Love this play! What an intense production by Primary Stages! The script itself is a brilliant way to study eventful writing. I will be teaching it! Hutchinson does not shy away from the gritty, harsh details that make this one of the harder mirrors to look at, but it's (sadly, scarily) even more relevant now than it was when she wrote it.

This play is an absolutely stunning read. I am from MD (Hagerstown, Frederick, Catonsville) and I know the kind of people who give their dogs racial slurs for names. There was one frighteningly large animal on my paper route when I was 10 or 11 (early 1980s) who shared this name. I went to a high school whose moniker was The Rebels, and you can guess the flags that flew unironically at the school. This is truly powerful writing.

This play visits intimate spaces where white supremacy lives--not political spaces, but social and domestic. We see racists, speaking with a candor that assumes ideological unity, and yet there is nuance, complexity and varying degrees of their lived racism. This play suggests that racist communities are fed by individuals who lack a sense of belonging, and it also offers an optimistic hope that we can all "do something different" to dismantle racism through understanding and connection.