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EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

Category

Play

Country

United States

Run Dates

Sep 18 - Oct 28, 2024

Run Time

80 minutes

Run Dates

2024.09.18 ~ 2024.10.28

Studio Theatre

About the show

Six Black students at the city’s worst high school wait out Friday detention, but no one can figure out how “College Bound Erika” ended up stuck here too. The rules are simple: a teacher has to sign their form before anyone can leave the room. But no adults have made it yet, so the teens fill their time by flirting, fighting, and forming plans for the long weekend ahead—until a more sinister probability comes into view. This gut-punch of a comedy interrogates how a racialized public school system fails its students by design, who gets the chance to escape it, and what they must leave behind to do so.

EXCEPTION TO THE RULE Info

Details

PLAYWRIGHT Dave Harris DIRECTOR Miranda Haymon SET DESIGNER Tony Cisek COSTUME DESIGNER Brandee Mathies LIGHTING DESIGNER Emma Deane SOUND DESIGNER Kathy Ruvuna INTIMACY COORDINATOR Sierra Young DRAMATURG Adrien-Alice Hansel PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER John Keith Hall CAST MIKAYLA Khalia Muhammad TOMMY Steven Taylor Jr. DAYRIN Jacques Jean-Mary DASANI Shana Lee Hill ABDUL Khouri St.Surin ERIKA Sabrina Lynne Sawyer INTERCOM Craig Wallace production photo ©Margot Shulman

Where it's been performed

Studio Theatre

Studio Theatre

Washington D.C.

United States

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