Staged Reading:
Discovering Blackness
Written by Sunflower B. Rose
Directed by Mya Brown
Saturday, September 13 at 4 pm
Catawba Theatre, UNCSA
1533 S. Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC
Age Rating: PG-13
Run Time: Approx. 2 hr.
NC Black Rep’s staged reading of Discovering Blackness is presented in partnership with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The event is free and open to the community.
Summary: The year is 2032. The campus is “raceless.” The resistance is just beginning. When the prestigious Prince Washington Institute launches a bold—and deeply controversial—social experiment to erase race from campus life, astrophysics major Destiny Maria Jones is just trying to find where she belongs. That search leads her to the nearly defunct Black Student Union, a once-thriving organization now hanging by a thread. But within its fading walls, Destiny finds something electrifying: purpose, power, and a legacy of resistance.
As the campus pushes erasure, Destiny pushes back—fueling her fight with cosmic curiosity and radical self-discovery. Blending science and activism, Discovering Blackness is a powerful exploration of identity, belonging, and what it means to exist—fully and unapologetically—in a world desperate to make you invisible.
THEATRE FOR EVERYONE
In December of 1979, Larry Leon Hamlin envisioned a transformative concept known as Living Room Theatre. NC Black Rep brought live theatre into the homes of families in the community, performing monologues and scenes from a variety of plays in an intimate setting.
Since its founding, Living Room Theatre has expanded its presence through staged readings at various locations in Winston-Salem, including the North Carolina Museum of Art and Wake Forest University.
Photo: Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward, performed in the living room of Vera Phillips, 1979.
