“If this country can't find its way down a Human path, if it can't inform conduct with a deep sense of life...then all of us, Black as well as White, are heading down the same drain.”
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
By Richard Wright
Adaptation and Direction: Wynn Handman
Performed by Tarantino Smith
The Story
Black Boy is a powerful account of one young man's journey from innocence to experience as a black youth living in the Jim Crow South. It is both the unashamed confession of a proud non-conformist and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
In Performance
Having premiered at the Kennedy Center, this Literature to Life original was one of the first titles on our roster to tour to communities nationally. A tour de force, the actor plays upwards of fifteen characters from Richard Wright's past.
Appropriate for: elementary / middle / high school, college, and community audiences
Available for pre-recorded, remote, or LIVE! performances
