LES BLANCS (THE WHITES)

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Extended to August 3!

Oakland Theater Project presents Lorraine Hansberry’s final work: Les Blancs. 

In the waning colonial days of the fictional African nation of Zatembe, a young Black man returns home from Europe to bury his father.

At the local medical mission, colliding interests and loyalties unfold—with inescapable consequences.

At a time when discussions of U.S. expansionism are resurfacing, these themes of colonization have never felt more urgent. 

This exploration of power, politics, and liberation resists simplistic narratives of good and evil, challenging us to confront the brutal complexities of empire.

“Intricate and clever… To enter the world of the play is to be smacked upside the head with its young writer’s insight and imagination… Oakland Theater Project’s cast kills it”

– San Francisco Chronicle

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