the ripple, the wave that carried me home
- Written by Christina Anderson
- Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
Christina Anderson’s plays include: How to Catch Creation, This Part of His Life Blooms, and Good Goods.
Her work has been produced across the country by theaters such as Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, MacDowell fellowship, and the United States Artists Fellowship, among many other honors. She is the author of Three Plays by Christina Anderson, a collection of her work published by Tripwire Harlot Press.
Tiffany Nichole Greene is a recent Obie Award recipient, three time New York Times Critic’s Pick. Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, member of SDC, and an MFA graduate of Brown University/ Trinity Rep. She’s an aggressive explorer of humanity. She finds Truth in the Absurd and finds “Realism” to be our hiding place; she finds it all to be very human.
Recent credits include Proof, Broadway (Associate); FROZEN, Children’s Theatre Company; The Scenarios, Studio Theatre; Bad Kreyòl, world premiere by Dominique Morisseau, Signature Theatre (NYT Critic’s Pick); Black Cypress Bayou, Geffen Playhouse; Covenant, world premiere, Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT Critic’s Pick, Obie Award for Direction); Rent, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Hamilton (Resident Director); 53% OF, Second Stage Theater; Ohio State Murders, Goodman Theatre; Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiations and Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember, Octopus Theatricals (NYT Critic’s Pick).
Janice’s parents are prominent activists fighting for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas — a struggle that penetrates the warm bubble of her childhood, driving a wedge between Janice and her family. Years later, when she’s asked to speak at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she’s ready to reckon with her political inheritance and the scars of a past she has tried to forget. A piercing, theatrically vivid story about the personal toll of fighting for justice, and the ultimate challenge of forgiveness.
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The language is beautiful and kept me up for hours.
A poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness.
