project

Bee-Luther-Hatchee

ensemble theatre · Pretty Mess Productions · Ages 18+ · United States of America

diversity
dramatic
identity
powerful
secrets
suspenseful
theater
true stories

About the Project

Shelita Burns, an African-American editor, publishes Bee-luther-hatchee, the autobiography of a reclusive 72-year-old black woman named Libby Price. Shelita has never met Libby, and when the book wins a prestigious award she decides to deliver it to her in person. To her profound shock, the actual author of the book is a white man named Sean Leonard. Furious and resentful, Shelita accuses Sean of perpetrating a hoax, while he defends the book as a truthful work of imagination. Their confrontation, played out on the edge of the racial divide, builds to a jarring act of violence.

Production Team

* Fringe Veteran

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