BY DOUGLAS TURNER WARD
DIRECTED BY AARON ZILBERMANN

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MARCH 23, 2018 AT 7:30PM
MARCH 24, 2018 AT 7:30PM
MARCH 25, 2018 AT 2:00PM

General Admission: $12

Day of Absence is a satirical fantasy about an imaginary Southern town where all the black people have suddenly disappeared. The only ones left are sick and lying in hospital beds, refusing to get well. Infants are crying because they are being tended to by strange parents. The Mayor pleads for the President, Governor, and the NAACP to send him "a jackpot of jigaboos." On a nationwide radio network he calls on the blacks, wherever they are, to come back. He shows them the cloths with which they wash cars and the brushes with which they shine shoes as sentimental reminders of the goodies that await them.