A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Poster Art by Amy Lynn Stevenson

American Son

by Christopher Demos-Brown

Director - Taylor Kasch

An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traﬃc stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their son.

AMERICAN SON is as timely and as topical as they come, seemingly ripped from the all too frequent headlines of the national media. As cases of police brutality and racial division continue to run rampant through a divided United States, this play enables theatre to join in the debate and provide a microcosm to explore the wider issues, possible causes and devastating consequences that surround it.

“With its unrelentingly high tension on every level - maternal, marital, societal - it’s more like a slice of a nightmare, with few contours despite its surprises.”
- The New York Times