Day of Absence
By Douglas Turner Ward
Directed by Theresa M. Davis
Helms Theatre
Oct. 23-25, 28-31, Nov. 1
8 p.m.
Crisis and chaos come to a sleepy Southern town in Douglas Ward’s fantastical parody Day of Absence.  All the black people have disappeared!   Mothers are helpless to take care of their children!  Households and businesses are falling apart!  The increasingly helpless government is facing a full scale revolt!  The hapless mayor pleads with the governor, the NAACP and even the President to hasten their return and restore order to a world gone horribly off its axis.  With broad satirical strokes (including a reversal of the minstrel model, with black actors in whiteface), Ward’s 1965 play paints the world in which he wrote it and the world as it is all too often seen today…as the ultimate study in contrast. Single Ticket Sales Begin Oct 6. ticket information>>

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