Confederates
Opening Night: March 27, 2022
Theater: Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Website: signaturetheatre.org
Sara, an enslaved rebel turned Union spy, and Sandra, a tenured professor in a modern-day private university, are having parallel experiences of institutional racism, though they live over a century apart. This New York premiere by MacArthur Genius Fellow Dominique Morisseau, directed by Stori Ayers, leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and explore the reins that racial and gender bias still hold on American educational systems today.
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March 27, 2022
It makes sense then that “Confederates,” which opened on Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Theater, feels like an elegant experiment, thoughtful and put-together but not quite realizing its full potential.
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March 27, 2022
As Confederates builds to a worthy climax, Morisseau offers an insightful portrait of Black people striving, both within and beyond their own moments, toward a great sense of union.
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March 27, 2022
Before giving Malik that A-plus, Sandra criticizes his paper, saying, “I think you can draw more concise lines between corporate America and the plantation.” Morisseau has no such problem drawing those lines. She gets the job done in record time.
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March 27, 2022
Time bends, and we do not flinch. The play’s big-swing departures from the real, asserted so confidently, are never confusing.READ THE REVIEW
March 27, 2022
A master at weaving together personal, historical, and social narratives, Morriseau here delivers her most ambitious, possibly most galvanizing, work yet: a comparative study between a Black woman professor at a respectable university, and the slave to whom she is equated in a campus hate incident.
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March 27, 2022
It’s devastating to witness a play and recognize how close to home it all hits. Each one of us, whether in the thick of being a target of prejudice and oppression, or being an ally to those in need, each carry an impossible task, and we carry on, holding onto a glimmer of hope at the bottom of Pandora’s box.
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