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The First Breeze Of Summer
Leslie Lee
Flag Day
by Lee Blessing
Synopsis
THE STORY: A play in two plays, FLAG DAY examines white/black relations in our society with an unblinking eye.
The first play, Good, Clean Fun , is a darkly funny office comedy pitting two workers—one black, one white—against each other as they try to complete a high-pressure project.
The office racism intensifies as we learn that one of them has stolen the other's wife.
(2 men.) The second, Down and Dirty , evokes recent white-on-black and black-on-white killings in the American South.
In a style poised carefully on the edge of absurdism, we discover a man dying in a car's windshield as people argue over whether or not to save him.
(3 men, 1 woman.)
Press Reviews
"…a raw-edged, cringe-inducing exercise in good old-fashioned theater of cruelty…FLAG DAY is a frank, powerful, insightful, commentary on the still-poisoned status of race relations in this country…Unexpectedly balanced and provocative, FLAG DAY will have audiences peering deeply into their own souls long after they have left the darkened theater."
— Washington Times
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Flag Day is a play written by Lee Blessing and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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