Trouble In Mind

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Created on Friday, 06 March 2015 17:44

Written by Julia Rose

LYNDON-- Although February is over, the idea of Black History Month is still on the peoples' minds. At Lyndon State College, the Twilight players and Lyndon Fair Club came together to put on a stage reading called "Trouble In Mind" last night.

The play centered around the problems of racism and social injustice, written in the 50's.

The actors of this play think that this play will really address the issue of racism, which is still a big topic of discussion today.

"Whether you're in a small town in Vermont of whether you're in Ferguson or whether you're in Detroit or New York that you are affected by racism," said cast member Sha'an Mouliert. "It affects us whether we are people of color or whether we are people of the dominant society. And sometimes it happens in such a way that people don't recognize it."

The play is about a group of actors rehearsing a new Broadway drama dealing with the lynching of a young black man in the South. The lead African- American woman gets mad when it comes to some of the stereotypes that the play brings to light. The rest of the play is about if the other actors, both black and white, will take her side on the matter.

"It's kind of amazing how what you see and what it is set in and what it is written in is the mid late 50's," Nathaniel Wayne, another cast member, said. "It reads like something that was written last year. It has not dated at all in the themes and what it's saying and what it's saying about society and the people in it."

This play is only the 2nd part of stage readings Lyndon State College is doing for the Year of Social Justice at the college.