Followed by a talk-back with the playwright and others.
This original play, written by UO student and political science major Sravya Tadepalli, is a fictional conversation between Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, her assistant, and two South Carolina legislative leaders (one African American, one white) about the proper response by the state to the Charleston Church shootings, which occurred two days prior. While the motives of the shooter are unknown at the time of this conversation, they know that he is a young, white Southerner who killed nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including Clementa Pinckney, a senior pastor at the church and a South Carolina state senator. At the time, South Carolina is still reeling in the wake of the Walter Scott shooting by a police officer less than three months before. The conversation revolves around the issues of race, gun control, and the presence of the Confederate Battle Flag on the South Carolina statehouse grounds.
