At times, it seems unbelievable that playwright Alice Childress wrote Trouble in Mind in 1955. The show, which features the tried and true dramatic structure of a play-within-a-play, examines racial politics with a razor-sharp wit. Playing in repertory at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga through the end of September, Trouble in Mind follows a cast of actors, most of whom are black, as they rehearse for the Broadway opening of the fictional “Chaos in Belleville,” a drama about sharecroppers that warns of the evils of lynching. CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE!
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