Alice Childress

Après l'assassinat de Martin Luther King, Johnny Wells, un révolutionnaire charismatique part braquer un dépôt d'armes avec sa bande. Tank, un alcoolique sans emploi, lui, veut suivre l'approche non violente prônée par Martin Luther King. Johnny l'entraine dans le coup, mais celui-ci fait capoter l'opération. Tank, plein de remords, se rend chez B. G., leader révolutionnaire.

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression. On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by two white men. When Wiletta finds that her arguments to tell the truth of the story are dismissed, she decides to take action. First staged over 60 years ago, Trouble in Mind is widely considered the masterpiece of actress and playwright Alice Childress - a wry and radical satire of racism in theatre.

Follow an experienced Black stage actress through rehearsals of a major Broadway production in Alice Childress’s funny, moving, and ultimately shattering look at racism, identity, and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre. A scathing indictment of racism in American commercial theatre, Trouble in Mind tells the story of Wiletta Mayer, a Black actress cast in a supposedly “progressive” play about racism by a white male author—it turns out to be anything but progressive.

A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.