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- Slide: 1
- Early morning.Nya stands in a small kitchen, still in pajamas, one hand holding a coffee that’s gone cold. Her child’s backpack sits on the floor. Dinner from last night was accidentally left out. Nya’s face looks tired but focused.
- Slide: 2
- Later that day.Students talk over each other. A phone buzzes on a desk. Students aren't paying attention. Nya stands at the front with a stack of papers, trying to keep order. Her expression is controlled, but her eyes show exhaustion.
- "'Mornin, class. Pull out your pens. Pop quiz today.'" pg.11
- *Students groan*
- Slide: 3
- Teachers’ lounge.Nya and Dun sit across from each other at a small table. Papers are stacked messily in front of Nya. A single cigarette rests between her fingers, unlit. Her posture is tense, but Dun has a half-smile on his face, relaxed.
- "'Got ten minutes before my next class. You sure you don't have a smoke? I really need it. Today. I need it today.'" pg. 26
- "Dun reaches in his pocket and tosses her a pack. She takes out a cigarette and places the pack on the table." pg.26
- Slide: 4
- Nya on the phone with Xavier
- "'Hey it's me. I know I shouldn't...It's about our son
- He got in a fight. They're going to...they are talking about kicking him out
- They're talking about pressing charges. I'm exhausted. You know that?
- Slide: 5
- [Then randomly enthusiastic ]
- So anyway! Give me a call back when you get a moment. So we can talk. Talk about. Your son. Our son, Us...
- [Long awkward pause]
- Yep. Okay. Bye.
- [Quick pause]
- I um... I also miss you.
- Slide: 6
- *BEEP*
- F***. I shouldn't have said that.
- [She deletes the voice message]
- Hey Xavier, it's Nya. Calling to talk to you about our son. Give me a callback when you get this.
- [She says professionally]
- Slide: 7
- "'Mr. Joseph, your perspective is mandatory here. Tell the class your perspective , or take a zero for the day.'"
- Nya and Omari are at home but his thoughts go back to school.
- Slide: 8
- ... ... ...
- She is in a classroom, checking papers. It is lunch period.
- "'I'm thinking... ... ... I'm thinking he needs a change . A big one... Maybe he should come stay with me.'"
- Slide: 9
- "'It doesn't matter where I send him to school, nothing's working! He's being sucked into this void and I keep trying hold onto him, but the force is so strong...so magnificent...that I have...to...'"
- Undefined space
- "'Strike strike strike Sing sin sin sin'"
- Slide: 10
- "'He ain't just questionin' me about Native Son ...He's saying something else. Something beneath the question and it's like I'm the only one who can hear it.'"
- Slide: 13
- Even when parents try to do “everything right,” the system still puts pressure on Black children.
- Nya, a public school teacher, sends her son Omari to a private school in hopes of shielding him from a broken education system.
- Slide: 14
- When Omari reacts to bullying with violence, he faces serious consequences that could change his life forever.
- Schools often punish Black students instead of supporting them, pushing them closer to the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Slide: 15
- Nya is forced to confront the painful truth: love alone cannot protect her son from an unjust system.
- The play exposes how systemic racism in schools pushes young people into limited paths they cannot easily escape.
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