Trouble in Mind, the play that made its way to Broadway decades after it should have, makes its regional premiere at Main Street Theater. msthouston
at Main Street Theater.Talk about a play with back story. In 1955, Black novelist and playwright Alice Childress wrote, but had to change the ending at the direction of one of the white and male producers to get it on stage. Her play was optioned for Broadway but there were even more demands on her to change her script — mainly to make white audiences happier with it.
Tené A. Carter has the lead role of Wiletta Mayer, a seasoned actress who has acquired her theater knowledge through on-the-job training, rather than by going to acting school. Now, finally she has her chance to be in a Broadway play and she's faced with other cast members who've approached the craft in a completely different way. She tries to mentor a younger black actor, seeking to protect him from some of the experiences she's had in theater.
"She has a connection to one of the younger actors, John Nevins, and she doesn't realize at first that he actually is the son of a good friend of hers that she went to school with. So she tries to school him in how to survive, particularly how to survive in a white world, in white theater and how to get roles. At some point she almost discourages him; she doesn’t want to see him get hurt," Carter says.
Carter had not been acquainted with this particular play although she had known of Childs from the author's other work. She thinks the original ending is fascinating and believes Childs was way ahead of her time.
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