418 MONTEZUMA AVE, SANTA FE NM 87501
Friday February 17th, 4:00 – 6:30 PM – Showing with This Wild Abyss
The Problem of the Hero
In 1940, controversial author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. A friendship between the two develops – they debate and collaborate for several weeks over the summer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, laboring night and day through extreme heat to adapt the story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man who accidentally but brutally kills a white woman in her bedroom. Now it is March, 1941, and they are in New York at the St. James Theatre on the eve of opening night, and a difference of opinion over a single page of the script threatens an impasse. As rehearsal continues around them, led by the mercurial Orson Welles, the resulting argument – delving into race, class, politics, and personal story – seems destined to dissolve their friendship.
Director:
Shaun Dozier
Writer:
James A. Hodge, Ian Finley
Producer:
WhyNot Theatricals, EbzB Productions, AyJ Productions, Gravel Films
Country:
United States
Length:
1h 24m 52s
