THE HOUSE OF THE NEGRO INSANE

written by Terence Anthony

directed by Rikki Howie
season sponsor: Valerie Lash

June 4 - 27, 2027

The year is 1935 and the Central State Hospital is one of seven psychiatric facilities in the U.S. built exclusively to care for “insane and idiotic negroes,” where the homeless and downtrodden are housed alongside the criminally insane and diseased. Attius builds coffins for the hospital where he has been locked up for years, but when two new patients ask him to help them escape Attius dares to dream of a life beyond his confines.