READINGS

Coming May 24, 25 at 7pm & 26 at 3pm
A play by Community Playwright

HIND SIGHT
A Play in Two Acts
by
Laura Emack

In a passage from Claudia Rankine’s  Citizen:  An American Lyric, a White male passenger utters a racist remark that his Black female driver allows to go unchallenged when he scornfully assigns great writers and people of color to separate sets.  HIND SIGHT posits a history of past wrongs involving the two players, acclaimed author Bradford Collins and our heroine Merita Lynn, beginning with an attempted sexual assault (that he may or may not remember) and culminating in her mystifying failure to take home an elite literary prize after being “unofficially” told she had won.  Years later, Merita Lynn seeks to unravel the past by confronting her sister’s childhood friend Allie who had served as a competition judge alongside Brad.  In the play’s final aspirational scene, Merita Lynn meets Brad with confidence, empathy and humor instead of humiliating silence. She manages to move his entrenched mindset toward inclusion as he envisions standing in the spotlight while traveling the world in quest of a great writer of color.