Sally and Tom
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III
Public Theatre
June 2, 2024
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💉💉💉 out of 5.

Sally and Tom

This play was a slow burn for me.  It took me a good long time to see the value of the play and to start to care about the characters but thankfully, near the end of the first act I was hooked in.  The story of Sally and Tom focuses on a group of actors playing members of Good Company, a ragtag theatre company putting on a show called The Pursuit of Happiness, written by Luce, who also plays Sally (the 14 year old slave owned and impregnated several times by President Jefferson), and directed by her white romantic and creative partner Mike. He is playing the man they refer to as TJ (President Thomas Jefferson).