An interesting question I’ve asked myself, and one I’ve been asked - plenty of times by others, from both white and black folks. The first time I remember hearing his name I was sixteen. I had just driven my grandmother in her hot new Impala convertible to Southampton County, Virginia to attend a family affair.

It was standing room only for this staged reading and it was clear the audience were already angry. The playwright will never forget that night...

A play about the holocaust can sometimes be horrifying, stark or fact-filled and biographical. Distant Survivors differs greatly from these as it focuses on the drama contained in Holocaust Poetry. Plays based on holocaust diaries like the Diary of Anne Frank can represent the practical and fearsome challenges of confinement and fear of discovery.