Full-Length
Dark Comedy
2W

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A Hit Dog Will Holler


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Synopsis

When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens when there’s no more outside space for the growing monster that is American racism?

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Casting

GINA — African-American, late-30s to early-40s. Female, hetero, snarky & fly. Gina is a social media activist. She’s afraid to leave her house.

DRU — African-American, 20s. Female, queer, no snark & also fly. Dru is a boots-on-the-ground activist. Afraid of not being out there in it.

Note: This is a play about African-American women and must be cast with Black women.


Setting

February 2020.
Somewhere during the Rona.
Gina’s home office aka her living room, on a quiet street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.


Reviews

“Craig-Galván sets up an odd couple relationship… but the two share a common bond in being Black women in a society that undervalues their contributions and endangers their lives.”
—Los Angeles Times