DDW Alumni Tylie Shider opens play at Premiere Stages

Congratulations to Alumni Tylie Shider (MFA) Whose play Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family opened in Union, New Jersey at Premiere Stages. For ticket info click here.

ABOUT THE PLAY
Set in 1967, Plainfield, New Jersey, the title of the play is taken from an E. Franklin Frazier article bearing the same title. E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962) was a noted black scholar (Ph.D.), a sociologist whose dissertation was published as a book entitled The Negro Family in the United States.

Through the play, audiences are granted an opportunity to observe the inner workings of a Negro family whose patriarch and matriarch migrated North as young adults, with two children (one in the womb, Jr.) for better job opportunities and a better future.

The bulk of the play’s action takes place on one historic day, Sunday, July 16th, 1967 during the Plainfield race riots enabling audiences to navigate a major historical event through the lens of an American family.