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Confederates | Hattiloo Theatre

Kacky Walton talks with Erma Elzey, director of "Confederates" at Hattiloo Theatre, which opens February 2, 2024.

Two Black American women - an enslaved rebel and a professor at a contemporary university - are having parallel experiences of institutional racism, though they live over a century apart. Tony-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau's new play explores the reins that racial and gender bias still hold over American educational systems today.

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