January 16, 2021
Via TDF
On Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, Metropolitan Playhouse, an Obie-winning company that revives forgotten plays, presents a reading of Aftermath, Mary P. Burrill’s devastating 1919 one-act about a Black WWI hero who returns to his South Carolina home to discover his father has been lynched by an angry white mob. More than a century after its debut, the play continues to speak to the urgent issues of racism, nationalism and the danger of mob mentality. Timothy Johnson directs Ryan Vincent Anderson, Anthony T. Goss, Linda Kuriloff, Nia Akilah Robinson, Lawrence Winslow and Kim Yancey-Moore.
Watch for free on the company’s YouTube channel though donations are encouraged.
