BasBlue is stepping outside the house and heading to Detroit Public Theatre for Confederates, Dominique Morisseau’s powerful play examining racism, gender bias, and revolution through the lives of two Black women 160 years apart.
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Dominique Morisseau’s searing and acclaimed play leaps back and forth in time to hold an unyielding lens to the racism and gender biases that plague America’s institutions to this day in her acclaimed play, Confederates. Revolution is the bond between two Black women living in America 160 years apart – Sara, an enslaved woman preparing herself to fight for the Union during the Civil War, and Sandra, a political science professor at an esteemed university fighting institutional racism. Don’t miss this powerful production written by DPT Executive Artistic Producer, MacArthur Genius award-winning, Tony-nominated, Daughter of Detroit, Dominique Morisseau.
Confederates runs 110 minutes.
