Rastus and Hattie
by Lisa Langford
Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until “black” robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward.
- Cast Size: 3M 3W
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
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It takes a skilled hand to guide an audience through such a wild imagined landscape, keep them laughing, & make them face hundreds of years of violence & injustice all at the same time. Lisa Langford does all of the above & more here, deftly intertwining ideas of slavery-robotics-genetics-ancestry through the lives of characters that, while touched with the fantastic, feel absolutely real within the world of the play, & relatable to the world outside of it.
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