Carry Me Back by Neal Bell
A college drama department wrestles with questions of race and representation, when their play-selection committee has to deal with a troublesome entry: an anonymous adaptation of Mark Twain's bleakly comic novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (where a white baby and one who can 'pass' for white are switched at birth.) Ben, a black professor, who's been haunted by the death of his...
A college drama department wrestles with questions of race and representation, when their play-selection committee has to deal with a troublesome entry: an anonymous adaptation of Mark Twain's bleakly comic novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (where a white baby and one who can 'pass' for white are switched at birth.) Ben, a black professor, who's been haunted by the death of his former partner Jake (a white playwright), begins to suspect the 'haunting' is literal - he's starting to see the partner he lost to cancer... and a new and troubling thought occurs: could Jake have been the author of the divisive play?