Featuring a strong ensemble of veteran stage actors, the Black Underground Theater will present "Sacrificial Jones" to the Dartmouth community at the Bentley Theatre in the Hopkins Center for Performing Arts this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
The play, written by JR Riddick '95, is billed as a production that will address spiritual genocide within the black Ivy League.
Featuring an eclectic group of students, the play is directed by seasoned actress Marsha Blake '96, a drama major.
Blake, the winner of the distinguished award for Best Actress in the 1992 Eleanor Frosts Plays, will make her directorial debut with this play.
"The story centers around a group of semi-anonymous Dartmouth students who come to the College with their different and varied backgrounds," Blake said.
The play challenges the audience to decide whether the students leave the College with better or worse experiences than when they arrived, Blake said.
The play will last approximately two hours and it features two acts: "Epiphany" and "Armageddon."
Although the play focuses primarily on Afro-American students, Blake emphasized that every student should be able to take something away from the it.
"Eveybody should be interested ... [because] The play is very contemporary ... and it's very much about Dartmouth," Blake said.
The cast includes Scott Ennover '98, Christian Felix '99, Lisana Gabriel '96, Karen Koontz '96, Steve McKoy '98, Shaunda Miles '99, Shani O'Neal and Mia Shelton '98.
Admission to the play is free.
