Clay's Place: Inside My Blue Mind at Chesapeake Arts Center

Clay’s Place: Inside My Blue Mind steps outside of the narrative that some of our most beloved and classic Black plays have made repetitive. Though set in 1956, Tennessee, it's not another Jim Crow show. It intermingles the richness of the experiences of our past with our continued fight to matter. It's about family, friends, and enemies. It's colored and blues. It's sadness, happiness and the line that fuses them together. It's hope reimagined, as you learn to play the hand you were dealt, whilst moving through spaces with vices and longing for freedom. It’s trauma and past hurts. It's the How I Got Over through music and movement. It’s dreams deferred but that won't ever die. It's living the blues on a cloud, out loud. It's Beale and Mississippi, blue minds and lost smiles. It is the timeless and self-evident truths of the Black existence in America.