Zara’s Faith: Somebody Has Got to Stand Up

A collaboration with Lower Bottom Playaz and Director, playwright, actor: Ayodele Nzinga. Starring Cat Brooks as Zara and with Reginald Wilkins as Pastor Simms.

Zara’s two grandsons have been stopped by cops–Daniel murdered, Dubois seriously wounded, an officer dead. Can the ancestors enable Zara to overcome her loss, calm her inner turmoil. and resist?  Zara’s faith is a layered drama that explores the meaning of faith, love and community and how these play out for Zara in the face of an unfolding social conspiracy. Substantially revised from its earlier staged reading in June, 2015, Zara’s Faith was originally drafted before New York’s Stop and Frisk catastrophe and before the Black Lives Matter movement arose in response to more recent police killings of unarmed Black (and Latino) youths. The subject never changes, but the response grows and the play’s plot provides surprises.