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74 Georgia Avenue by Murray Schisgal
A deeply affecting examination of the bizarre
developments when a successful
(but deeply unhappy) white businessman, Marty, decides to spend a
few days in his boyhood home, in what now has become a black
neighborhood. He encounters Joseph, the son of the deceased black
man who was the janitor of the once thriving synagogue of Marty's
childhood. This serendipitous meeting draws Marty into a strange,
haunting and uncanny journey as Joseph recounts their shared past.
This play embodies the off beat humor and gentle pathos which
mark Schisgal’s work.
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