MPAACT & Pegasus Players Present Ten Square

September 25 – November 22, 2009

 

Written by: Shepsu Aakhu

Directed by: Mignon McPherson Nance

On the heels of the government’s apology to African-Americans for slavery, the Reparations Movement was born. The movement was successful, checks were written to the descendants of slaves and the seeds for a new America were sown.
 
Ten Square is one of the cities that emerged in "New America" and the life of the African-American community has been forever altered. We watch Roosevelt, a soldier duty bound to protect the new world order and a resident  of Ten Square, negotiate his obligations to his lover, his family and his government.

Ten Square is what America could be, and much of what America has become.