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Theatre in the Park: Blackademics

On Saturday, July 9th from 6-7PM, we are working with the UF Driveway Theatre Project to bring you a Dinner and a Show event at the 4th Ave Food Park!
The Driveway Theatre Project (DPT) is an amazing effort that brings the theatre to you, providing performances at no cost and removing boundaries that hinder folks from attending live theatrical performances.

Show Information: Blackademics

Written by: Idris Goodwin

Directed by: Cristina Palacio

PG-13 / 55 minutes

There’s something strange about the trendy new restaurant in town. When Ann and Rachelle meet there for dinner, there’s already tension in the friendship they’ve built on their common experience navigating academia as black women: While Ann just got tenure at her tiny liberal arts college, Rachelle’s struggling to find her place at the less prestigious state university. So at first it’s easy to overlook odd things like the single water glass they’re offered, or the mysterious server who keeps assigning points to their conversational gambits. But as the hunger sets in, the two professors find themselves the unknowing stars of an absurdist dinner theater performance of black plight. Somebody’s got to get the first bite, after all. A sharp, surreal satire about who gets a place at the table.

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