June 2, 2011
InterAct Theatre Company Presents In A Daughter’s Eyes, Based On A Philadelphia Story, On Stage Through June 19
Two American daughters fight to find a balance between justice and forgiveness.
(Photo by 'Plate 3 Photo' courtesy Interact)
Through the InterAct Theatre Company world premiere of In a Daughter’s Eyes, up-and-coming playwright A. Zell Williams turns modern-day issues into more than just words — he remolds them into flesh and blood.
The piece is based on the true Philadelphia story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist convicted in the 1981 death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Williams’ version is set in Oakland, CA at the turn of the millennium.
Centered on the confrontations between two characters, Kathryn Tinney and Rehema Salaam, one the daughter of a murdered cop and the other the daughter of the Black Panther Party member arrested for the crime, In a Daughter’s Eyes is an at times uncomfortable, always very real and unafraid look into the eye of the storm.
But the eye of this storm is not a calm circle, it is the focal point of tension into which two characters are wound so tightly by societal and generational pressures that even the simple tokens of day-to-day life — piggybanks, books, radios — become weapons in the struggle for survival.
In a Daughter’s Eyes shakes up audiences at the Adrienne through June 19.
Tickets are available online.
In a Daughter’s Eyes
When: Now–June 19
Where: Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom Street
Cost: Tickets range from $18-$32
More info: www.interacttheatre.org
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