THEATRE REVIEW: Zell Miller III's Chronicles of an Indigenous Offspring is not a love letter, it’s a wake-up call.
offers one Black man’s reflections on racial injustice in the segregated 1970s Austin of his youth, with the intention of providing commentary about systemic racism today and the need for unaware or unconcerned white Austinites to do something about it.
There’s a scene in the novel and film versions of Lee’s work where the white, liberal lawyer who defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman turns to leave the courtroom after losing the case to the community’s deeply entrenched racism. As he looks up at the “colored section” of the upper balcony, he sees that everyone is standing in silence as a sign of respect and gratitude.
One consists of Miller’s affectionate reflections on his youth while growing up in East Austin’s Springdale Gardens housing project. His memories are of joyful and carefree times with his family and friends, until the family moved north and the startled Miller, in third grade, was called the N-word for the first of many times in his life.
Both are accompanied by Thomas Wheeler’s live-performed percussive soundscape, which adds to their poignancy. These monologues weave the tapestry that is the experience of growing up in this town as one member of the small, segregated Black community that constitutes only 7.7% of Austin’s population.
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