World Premiere “Rastus and Hattie” @ CPT Looks at America’s Racial Legacy

Photo by Steve Wagner

Sat 10/5-Sat 10/26

Cleveland-based playwright Lisa Langford has a long history with Cleveland Public Theatre, which has produced many of her works. The up-and-coming artist is also the 2018/2019 Nord Family Foundation Playwright Fellow & recipient of a 2019 Joyce Foundation Award, which supports artists of color in Great Lakes cities.

Her latest play, Rastus and Hattie, is set to have its world premiere at CPT this month. It’s set in the near future, but based on a human-like, brown-skinned robot actually developed by Westinghouse in the 1930s, intended to replace laborers.

As the set-up is described, “Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until ‘black’ robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward.”

CPT regular Anne McEvoy directs the pay which opens Sat 10/5 and runs through Sat 10/26. Tickets are $15-$35.

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