"Pipeline" at Lakewood Playhouse
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I am in Section C, Row D, Seat 114.
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they'll never have. When a controversial incident at Omari's upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront both his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?
The play draws its name from the "school-to-prison pipeline" which refers to the policies and practices that push our nation's schoolchildren out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Gwendolyn Brooks' prophetic poem, "We Real Cool", is the backdrop of this passionate play about educators who see the humanity in their students and a family fighting social injustice and reroute the pipeline.