Brownie Points
Written by Janece Shaffer
Directed by Jasmine Guy
This new comic drama by the popular Atlanta playwright masterfully mirrors modern families and society through the multi-cultural mayhem of a girls’ club camp-out in the north Georgia mountains. When a fierce, unexpected storm strands a group of mothers and daughters overnight in the woods, ethnic prejudices, some latent, others blatant, bubble to the surface and force the adults to examine which is deeper—the shared experience of motherhood or the divisive judgments of their upbringing. Brownie Points is both touching and comical in its portrayal of race, stereotypes and how people relate to each other, both unwittingly and intentionally.
Jasmine Guy, best known for her role on the popular late-1980s television show, A Different World, directs this production. Ms. Guy is building her directing career having recently directed For Colored Girls … at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company and several other shows in the Atlanta area. She has performed on Broadway in Chicago the Musical and also starred in the Sci-Fi hit, Dead Like Me.
*For ages 12 and up, for adult language.
