Spinning Into Butter

This play tricks you. You think it's going to be a revealing and blunt discussion about how white people feel about their own racism and how they get called out on try to tell its story. But that's precisely what the play is. The central character - a black student who, it turns out, had been sendin......more

Interesting and unflinching look at racism in higher ed.......more

I just went to see Swing State at the Goodman and I loved it so I decided to try reading some of Gilmans other plays. This one was good but pretty talky. Wondering if it would be different as a performance.......more

I was not at all familiar with this play before reading it. Gilman's name sounded familiar but I couldn't name anything she'd written. I am sure that will change for me. Judging simply by the title, I suspected that this play would deal with racial issues and I admit to having second thoughts because......more

The work is sharp, consuming, and surprisingly hip for a play steeped in academic jargon. It is compared, on the book jacket, to David Mamet's OLEANNA. I liked OLEANNA enormously, but I think this is the better play. Unlike OLEANNA, which is about sexual harrassment, this play is about racial tensio......more