Slashes of Light by Judy Tate

A joint project of the Kitchen Theatre and Civic Ensemble In an all-black parochial middle school on Chicago?s south side in 1966, precocious young Sunny befriends the new white history teacher. Her best friend, a budding young radical, doesn?t approve, and the older boy she has a crush on is mysteriously quiet. In this coming-of-age story, the characters confront their deepest secrets in a thorny struggle to understand themselves, each other and the changing world around them.