Confederates

by Dominique Morisseau

Overview

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. Confederates 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636701745
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	01/21/2025
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Dominique Morisseau is the author of The Detroit Project, which includes the plays Skeleton Crew, Paradise Blue, and Detroit ’67. Additional plays include Pipeline, Sunset Baby, Blood at the Root, and Follow Me To Nellie’s. She is also the Tony-nominated book writer of the Broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations. Morisseau is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless (3 seasons). She is the recipient of numerous awards, including  the Steinberg Playwright Award, the NBTF August Wilson Playwriting Award, and the MacArthur “Genius” Grant.

Editorial Reviews

With Confederates, Morisseau leaves the confines of realism that she has negotiated so well to this point in her career and offers a challenging new paradigm, here as a way to examine the familiar and evolving trials of Black women and their successes in America.” —Exeunt NYC

“Beautiful language that’s wedded to tales of adversity — the play is full of such paradoxes, another one being that Confederates is a work about racism that is truly funny.” —New York Times

“Morisseau’s voice gets fiercer and richer the farther she gets from naturalism.” —Vulture

“Because Morisseau is best known as the accomplished author of straightforward social dramas like Pipeline and Skeleton Crew, the audacious shifts of timeframe and tone in Confederates come as a bit of a surprise. She pulls it off with power and finesse.” —Time Out New York

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