Billy

The Chicago Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Billy by Albert French, adapted for the stage by David Barr. Based on a true story, a ten-year-old Black boy in rural 1930s Mississippi kills a teenage white girl in self-defense and is sentenced to die in the electric chair. This tragic, often gripping story, has been heralded as the finest first novel by a writer since Toni Morrison’s Bluest Eye, and the stage version promises to be just as powerful. Douglas Alan-Mann directs.