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Synopsis
brownsville song (b-side for tray) is a poignant story about tragedy, family, resilience, and hope. Moving easily between the past and the present, the play tells the story of eighteen year old African-American Tray and his family. When Tray is senselessly killed on the streets of his Brownsville neighborhood in Brooklyn, his family must figure out how to hope, grieve, and come together.
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A Note From the Playwright:
things in parentheses are not meant to be spoken, just thought
line breaks usually mean a new thought, an interrupted thought, or a turn in the same thought but do not always require a pause
‘pause’ means a brief silence
‘silence’ means a slightly longer pause
pauses or silences in this play are not negative space, they are held moments where the internal activity of the character arcs into the external world - they hold the space of a thought just as
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