Five young people try their best to find a measure of grace in a society temperamentally unsuited to it.
Flying Elephant Productions presents the Chicago premiere of Aurin Squire's
award-winning 2014 comedy, about a tight-knit group of friends whose bond
is broken when a white boy moves into their black neighborhood in a small
Florida town and joins their Michael Jackson fan club. Obie (Christopher Taylor), the protagonist, opens the play with a monologue
listing 9/11, the Great Recession, and host of other cultural touchstones
America had yet to reach in 1984, the year the play is set.…
Five young people try their best to find a measure of grace in a society temperamentally unsuited to it.
Flying Elephant Productions presents the Chicago premiere of Aurin Squire's
award-winning 2014 comedy, about a tight-knit group of friends whose bond
is broken when a white boy moves into their black neighborhood in a small
Florida town and joins their Michael Jackson fan club. Obie (Christopher Taylor), the protagonist, opens the play with a monologue
listing 9/11, the Great Recession, and host of other cultural touchstones
America had yet to reach in 1984, the year the play is set.…