By Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Donna Marie McMillan
Starring Valerie Thames, Nonye Obichere, Daylen Jones, Jessica Johnson, Holli Armstrong
February 9-24, 2024
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Sundays at 2 p.m.
Performances will be held at
The Arts Factory at West End Studios
1545 W. Trade St, Charlotte, NC 28216
Join us for the Charlotte premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s award-winning and thought-provoking dramedy, Confederates. Directed by Donna Marie McMillan.
2019 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
NOMINEE- 2022 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production and Direction
NOMINEE- 2022 Antonyo Award for Best Play
About the Show:
Sara, an enslaved rebel turned Union spy, and Sandra, a tenured professor in a modern-day private university, are having parallel experiences of institutional racism, though they live over a century apart. The latest work from MacArthur Genius Fellow Dominique Morisseau leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and explore the reins that racial and gender bias still hold on American educational systems today.
Confederates contains strong adult language, partial nudity, adult themes around race and gender, and descriptions and depictions of anti-Black and anti-Female sentiments and violence. Recommend for ages 16+
“Beautiful language that’s wedded to tales of adversity — the play is full of such paradoxes... a work about racism that is truly funny.” – NY Times Critics’ Pick
Arts Factory
1545 W Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28216
United States