Eden is coming to the Yale Repertory Theatre on January 16th-February 8th. Get tickets at www.yalerep.org
Wanda Coppage discusses Eden with actor Russell G. Jones.
About the show
1927, San Juan Hill, a six-block stretch of Manhattan where tensions run deep between its populations of Black Americans and Caribbean immigrants. Eustace, recently transplanted from the South, falls in love with the girl next door, Annetta. But her ironfisted father, Joseph, an ardent Garveyite, has arranged for her to marry another man from the West Indies to protect his bloodline. In Steve Carter’s blistering saga, Eden, clashing ideologies and youthful passions threaten dangerous consequences for two families and their community.
By Steve Carter and Directed by Brandon J. Dirden