BULRUSHER

Written by: Eisa Davis

Directed by: nataki garrett

2014

A co-production by Lower Depth Theatre and Skylight Theatre.

Set in 1955 - Bulrusher is a coming-of-age story in which the mixed race title character, abandoned as a baby and taken in by the townspeople, navigates a world where she finds herself increasingly outside the mainstream of Boonville, California, a predominately white, small country town where she is raised. When a black visitor from Alabama arrives in the town, Bulrusher begins to confront the norms and attitudes that she and those in her town take for granted.

“Director Nataki Garrett’s precisely rendered staging of Eisa Davis’ flawed but remarkable play unfolds with a mesmeric leisureliness, taking on the power and potency of myth.”

— The L.A. Times