Trouble In Mind
- By Alice Childress
- Directed by Irene Lewis
- October 26 to November 17, 2007
- Yale Repertory Theatre
Wiletta Mayer, an African American actress of a certain age, has spent her career playing stereotypes, trapped on a merry-go-round of mammies, maids, and other menials. The curtain rises on the first day of rehearsal for Chaos in Belleville, a Broadway-bound play that tackles the harsh truths of racism in America. But when those truths spill out of the play and into the rehearsal hall, will Wiletta’s insistence on her dignity cost her the work she desperately needs?
Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress’s funny, fierce, and moving comedy, became a smash hit Off-Broadway in 1955, and soon a move to Broadway was announced. But when Childress refused to accommodate the producers’ request to brighten the ending of the play for a commercial audience, the move was cancelled. Half a century later, the time for this wise and witty play has come again.
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