with all due respect, the woolly website for the show prominently features a warning:

appropriate for ages 16 and up
(contains nudity and sexual situations)

a placard in the theater also warns that the production includes smoking, gunshots and nudity.

i’m sure woolly will have no problem finding a taker of your “season pass” from among the hundreds of patrons at each of the packed houses who have lauded this production.

good luck with your future viewing endeavors.

I’ve also got to question Woolly Mammoth’s choice in showing this when they are seeking season pass members for next year. Reading next years list of plays, it appears to me that I have no way of avoiding another one like this. I won’t be renewing my season pass and will have to make choices play by play.

Had there been a theatrical time warp, and the play were set in the 1850′s old south and the 1930′s Germany, the parallels would have been less contentious, perhaps more a matter of degree. I think we can come away from the play and appreciate that, too. That there were Jewish and black slave owners of that era, would only confuse the sentiments and complicate the guilts. The play Antebellum in that context loses its oomph.

The actions of Americans in Little Rock (and others you mention) in the 20th century were not sanctioned by the state and not pogroms.

The comparisons between the two cultures in the 30′s is legitimate comparison because they were contemporaneous, but the story makes connections that maybe would not exist otherwise. Similarities in culture are interesting, but, no, they are never the quite same comparison that you suggest. The connection in the play Antebellum is artistic, it is powerful, maybe important. It isn’t intended to re-write history as much as it forces us to consider how we count degrees and how close we come to the other nature when we do.