The Niceties
by Eleanor Burgess

Name: The Niceties
Brand: Eleanor Burgess
SKU: 9780573707995
Rating: 4.23 (108 reviews)

Off-Broadway

The Niceties Book Cover — The Niceties Cover

Highlights

Female

105 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Black Actor(s)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution.

What begins as a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent debate about race, history and power.

Press Reviews

"Burgess generates a verbal whirlwind with a words-per-minute velocity that rivals Aaron Sorkin."
— The Boston Globe

"An articulate expression of #blacklivesmatter anger as well as a Millennial rebel yell."
— The Arts Fuse

"A barnburner of a play… One of the best plays I’ve seen about who gets to tell the story of America, and how."
— The Washington Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Zoe Reed Female, Black, twenty. A college student.	female	—	Female, Black, twenty. A college student.
Janine Bosko Female, white, early sixties. A college professor.	female	—	Female, white, early sixties. A college professor.