How do we teach troubling histories to young people? By even more troublesome methods!

 

A delirious, funny, and taboo-smashing work about race relations in America travels through time from a modern-day middle school lecture to pre-Civil War times. Along the way this fluid duet moves through a host of comedic and tragic scenarios, as it confronts and confounds thorny issues of race and the perverse narratives created to soften history.

Watch reenactment culture gone awry, a romantic comedy with hipster racists, an irreverent take on the politics of the “n-word,” the sexual allure of the Civil War, troubling middle school curricula, white saviors and magical negroes, and a time traveling romance between teachers who harbor a racially exoticized attraction.

 

Co-Creators + Performers Jenn Kidwell and Scott Sheppard | Director Sarah Sanford | Dramaturg James Ijames | Scenic Design Steven Dufala | Sound Alex Bechtel | Costumes Katherine Fritz | Lighting Oona Curley | Produced in association with Lightning Rod Special