EXCEPTION TO THE RULE
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.
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
Washington D.C.
United States
Washington D.C.
,United States