Brutal Imagination: A Play Adapted from the Poem Cycle

by Cornelius Eady

A bracing poetic reflection on the deadly power of the white imagination from acclaimed writer Cornelius Eady.

This spare and haunting play takes its inspiration from the case of Susan Smith, a white woman who murdered her two young children by strapping them into the back seat of her car and pushing it into a lake. In statements to the police, Smith claimed she had been carjacked by a young Black man. In Brutal Imagination,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163670221X
• ISBN13: 9781636702216
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 64 Pages