“The two characters keep doubling down, unable to back away from steps they’ve already made, positions they have staked out. And, as you watch, you start to feel a deep sense of dread — even, speaking for myself, of a kind of internal panic. Such moments in the theater always are profound; our great, shared tragedies all have in common the sudden onset of chaos, of human beings flung into a situation they no longer can control. Tuttle makes it very clear that it was incumbent on the police officer to control the situation, not the citizen who was otherwise going about her business. Still, the play also suggests that the humans here are just reactive creatures, fallen prey to bigger societal and systemic forces than themselves.” Chicago Tribune

“a hell-mouth kind of design from Kristen Robinson, a piece of stagecraft wherein fresh air and blue sky is ever in danger of being blanked out.” Chicago Tribune

“Set designer Kristen Robinson has smartly arranged the stage as a marble cemetery slab, so even as we laugh at the many mirthful moments, it ominously never fully lets us forget that lynching looms in the future like a dark shadow.” Chicago Reader

The Goodman Theatre, 2020

Playwright: korde arrington tuttle

Director: Danya Taymor

Set Design: Kristen Robinson

Costume Design: Montana Levi Blanco

Lighting Design: Marcus Doshi

Sound Design: Richard Woodbury

Photography: Liz Lauren and Kristen Robinson