Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress comes to the Two River Theater

The Two River Theater in Red Bank continues its 2013/2014 season by presenting its next play Trouble in Mind : a rediscovered American classic written in the 1950s by Alice Childress, and directed by Jade King Carroll.

About the writer

Alice Childress (the first African-American woman to have a play
professionally produced in New York) uses a play-within-a-play structure to create a bitingly funny look at the complex, difficult, and often emotional way people talk about race-and a hilarious backstage drama about artists at work.

About A Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress

On the stage of a Broadway theater in New York City in the mid-1950s, a modern, recently integrated theater company has gathered for their first day of rehearsal of a new play called Chaos in Belleville, an anti-lynching Southern drama.

But as the company rehearses, Wiletta, the African-American actress in the starring role, must find the courage to confront her white director about his interpretation of the play-setting off an explosive conversation about fear, power, race relations, and the struggle for public and private equality.

The company, directed by Jade King Carroll, includes Two River favorites Robert Hogan (On Borrowed Time), Brenda Pressley (In This House), Steven Skybell (The Electric Baby), and Hayley Treider (Present Laughter), and McKinley Belcher III (Invisible Man), Jonathan David Martin (War Horse), Tony Award-winner Roger Robinson (August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone), Brian Russell (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), and Amirah Vann (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike).

Performances

Performances will begin in Two River’s Rechnitz Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, on Saturday, April 5 and continue through Sunday, April 27.

The opening night performance is Friday, April 11 at 8pm. Tickets are available from 732.345.1400 or tworivertheater.org.

The lead production sponsor for Trouble in Mind is Wells Fargo.