Trouble in Mind

Wiletta Mayer, a talented Black actress, begins rehearsals for a new Broadway play about racism, written and directed by white men and filled with racial stereotypes. After twenty-five years of doing what directors demand, Wiletta faces a difficult choice: keep her mouth shut and keep her job, or stand up for the truth of her experience and risk everything. Alice Childress's groundbreaking 1955 play, unseen on Broadway for over sixty years, is a fiercely funny and devastating exposé of racism in the American theatre.