Exception to the Rule at Studio Theatre
Dates: 9/18/2024 - 10/27/2024
1501 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 2023323300
Tickets: $45-$90
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Six Black students at the city’s worst high school wait out Friday detention, but no one can figure out how “College Bound Erika” ended up stuck here too. The rules are simple: a teacher has to sign their form before anyone can leave the room. But no adults have made it yet, so the teens fill their time by flirting, fighting, and forming plans for the long weekend ahead—until a more sinister probability comes into view. This gut-punch of a comedy interrogates how a racialized public school system fails its students by design, who gets the chance to escape it, and what they must leave behind to do so.
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