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WAM Theatre presents
Pipeline
by Dominique Morriseau
Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 7:30PM

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA 01240


In Partnership with Multicultural BRIDGE

Co-produced with The Nora at Central Square Theatre, Cambridge MA

PIPELINE was first presented as a Fresh Takes reading in August 2018. This is WAM’s Second Fresh Takes reading to be produced as a Mainstage production. This is also WAM’s second time partnering with Multicultural BRIDGE, the first being FACING OUR TRUTH in 2016.

It’s a gamble… All the time. You send your young man out into the world every day… But you don’t know… you have no idea if they’re safe. You have no idea if one day someone will try to expire them because they are too young. Or too black. Or too threatening. Or too loud. Or too uninformed. Or too angry. Or too quiet. Or too everyday. Or too cool. Or too uncomposed. Or too mysterious. Or just too TOO… It leaves a tremble in your heart on a daily.”

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher is committed to her students, and desperate to give her only son opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident in his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. Pipeline is Dominique Morisseau’s beautiful and deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Dominique Morisseau won a 2018 Obie Award for Playwriting for the Lincoln Theatre Company production of Pipeline. WAM is proud to present a full production of this cutting edge new play, which Village Voice critic Michael Feingold praised as “powerful, passionate, and intelligent.”

“If Dominique Morisseau wasn’t already established as one of the most exciting theatre voices that have emerged in this young century, Pipeline should surely confirm that status.” ~BroadwayWorld

Pipeline is an emotionally harrowing, ethically ambiguous drama that raises barbed questions about class, race, parental duty, and the state of American education.” – Variety

“BRIDGE is thrilled to collaborate with WAM Theatre again, this time on Dominique Morisseau’s brilliant play Pipeline, which is advancing a much-needed national conversation on the crisis of the Black family in the U.S.” said Multicultural BRIDGE Chief Executive Officer and Founding Director, Gwendolyn Hampton Van Sant. “Through the story of one young Black student’s success and challenges, we share the experience of a Black family facing long-standing cultural and systemic barriers. The school to prison ‘pipeline’ affects not only the poor; the constant pressure and trauma of racism can touch any family at any moment.”
“Through the arts, we look forward to creating more local opportunities for authentic discussion around the stark ethnic disparities that exist for Black families as we identify solutions through activism,” Van Sant continued. “Pipeline helps us enter these conversations with courage.” In December, 2017, American Theatre Magazine profiled PIPELINE and how Morisseau came to write it. Read the article here. This production is sponsored in part by Carolyn Butler.

Mature language. Recommended for ages 13+.