A Small Oak Tree Runs Red
A Small Oak Tree Runs Red
Closed 2h 30m NYC: Brooklyn
80% 21 reviews
80%
(21 Ratings)
Positive
81%
Mixed
19%
Negative
0%
Members say
Absorbing, Thought-provoking, Great acting, Intense, Relevant

About the Show

Inspired by the true story of the 1918 lynching rampage that followed the death of plantation owner Hampton Smith, this New York premiere offers an unflinching look at one of the shameful periods in US History. 

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Critic Reviews (1)

The New York Times
February 16th, 2018

"Flawed and devastating...The script has its problems, and so does the staging — repetition, sermonizing, a blurriness...Still, the play has a forceful, painful impact...The style, before it shifts into didacticism, evokes a nightmare...The play insists that a reckoning with the past will loosen history's noose, that the truth will set us free. That's a comforting moral after the infanticide. I'm not sure it's one I believe."
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