“Like the stand-up legend [Richard Pryor], O’Hara finds laughs in the darkest places… his comic instinct never deserts him—even when he’s rolling out a really
[challenging] premise.” --Time Out NY

American Maul
By Robert O'Hara

Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe

With the country in recession and the nation mired in war, the newly elected President of the United States needs to kick start the economy. Suddenly a miracle solution appears. A new form of cotton has been cultivated, and with it the promise of prosperity returns, but labor is scarce. With no one to pick this new breed of cotton the President takes what he considers the only logical action: He rescinds the Fourteenth Amendment and re-institutes slavery. In this deconstruction of American history, playwright Robert O’Hara uses scathing satire, outrageous humor, and soaring theatricality to address the tenuous state of racial harmony in America today.

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