October 21, 2024
DC Theater Arts
Woolly teams up with Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater to mount Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ dark comedy, set in Prince George’s County.
Jacobs-Jenkins’ witty and moving dark comedy focuses on five friends in 2023 who reunite twenty years after graduating from a high school in Prince George’s County, outside of Washington, DC. Known as the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group,” they were once bonded by their outsider status and the traumas of their teenage years. Gathered on a porch ahead of their high school reunion, they reminisce about their younger selves and reveal how their lives have unfolded since graduation. As the gathering progresses, they drink, fight, play a truth game, and lament the disappointments of their adult lives. Throughout the evening, they are haunted by a mysterious otherworldly figure that inhabits each character, forcing them to confront the possibility that their past actions may have sealed their present fates irrevocably.
