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Podcast: Open-Door Playhouse
Episode: THEATER 143: Chess Master
Description: Send us Fan MailSet in 1863, just after the Emancipation Proclamation, Chess Master tells the story of a confrontation between a defiant plantation owner and a newly freed slave. The owner, desperately clinging to the old order, attempts to coerce his former servant into staying on as an unpaid laborer---a potent allegory for the continuing struggle to create a truly free society.The cast includes Tim Powell, Tazz Yancey, and Dennis Gersten.. Gersten directs.Braddon Mendelson is the playwright. His full-length plays include Provenance,Gallows Falls, Rembrandt Perfected, Resisted Living, and Minor...