The rare world of free people of color
There’s drama inherent in the in-between status of the free people of color in “Safe House,” Keith Josef Adkins’ play set in Kentucky in 1843, and directed by L. Peter Callender for the Aurora.
Frank (Lance Gardner) resents being chased out of a creek “like a dog” by their sheriff, while his aunt, Dorcas (Dawn L. Troupe), thinks it’s best if they don’t stir up trouble, and Frank’s brother Addison (David Everett Moore) even says, “You know I don’t allow that abolitionist talk in this house.”
‘Safe House’ wasn’t about writing a play,” he says in a statement, “it was discovering my genealogy.