Liza Jessie Peterson's solo piece offers a fierce, comic, and shrewd indictment of the systemic inequity within America's fastest growing industry, tracing its roots from the plantation to the prison yard. (Past Reviews)
Read more Show lessSee it if you desire a better understanding of day's African-American reality.
Don't see it if political and judicial injustice is inconsequential to you. Read more
See it if you are willing to consider serious issues, you are openminded, you like one-person shows
Don't see it if You don't like to face the truth, you want a typical play or comedy Read more
See it if You want to heard from a woman of color and her opinion on justice in the US.
Don't see it if You are Unsympathetic to changing the criminal justice system, this won’t be your show.
See it if You’re open to seeing the prison pipeline as modern slavery—if you liked her book you will resonate with this play.
Don't see it if Issues surrounding race, race relations, and Black Lives Matter are not important to you. Read more
See it if you like clever stand-up solo shows with lots of shtick that anyone would get but tilted toward an Afro-American audience; very engaging.
Don't see it if You don't like stand-up; get annoyed if you don't get all the jokes because as a white person I missed some nuances; you're easily offended. Read more
See it if You want to see creatively told show about the prison system. The playwright/actress wove in facts/statistics/stories that kept it engaging
Don't see it if You don’t like one person shows about important subjects
See it if a one-person show about the calculated inequities aimed at African Americans in the criminal justice system appeals to you.
Don't see it if you don’t like one-person shows, you’re a racist or you’re not interested in plays with a social justice message. Read more
See it if You want to see a one person show that is as entertaining as it is informative. What first felt terribly cliched soon became obvious truth.
Don't see it if You are a racist or if you hate one person shows. This was eye opening to how racist our prison system really is. Read more