This month, Alchemy Theatre is presenting a new production of Dominique Morisseau’s 2017 play Pipeline.
Director Simone Raquel Alexander wasn’t planning to do a lot of theater work in 2023, but the opportunity to direct playwright Dominique Morisseau’schanged that plan. “I had a cap on how much work I was going to take on for 2023,” Alexander says. “And I already told myselfAnd then when I got [Alchemy Theatre managing director Carol Hickey’s] email, I was like,Alexander was already a fan of Morisseau’s work and couldn’t resist taking on the project.
Alexander says that the play, which deals with family issues, race issues, and the school-to-prison pipeline, covers some difficult ground. That’s meant taking care to protect herself and her actors emotionally. “I think because I'm a mom, there are some emotional walls that I've had to build up with the show,” she says. “I could cry every single night with the performances and the story that we're telling here.
“It's not an instructive play. It’s an illuminating play,” Hickey says. “I hadn't thought as carefully about these kinds of topics and these kinds of issues. And this play opened my mind, opened my heart to a different experience outside of my own. And really, that's what I go to the theater for.”
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