Dissonance: Two-Person Play Deftly Explores Race, Love, and Friendship at Red Mountain Theatre, Sept. 21

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times What happens when two friends, one Black, one white, who have been acquaintances for two decades open a business together when the topic of race is a difficult conversation to have? Can their friendship survive an honest discussion about how they truly feel? Those are questions Marci Duncan and Kerry Sandell, Florida-based actor-writers in a new play titled “Dissonance”, a 90-minute two-person drama asks during Red Mountain Theatre Company’s 7TH Annual Human Rights New Works Festival starting Friday, September 20 through Sunday, September 22. The three-day event features four new pieces including a reading of “Dissonance”, Saturday, September 21 at 2 p.m. at the Red Mountain Theatre. “This play is about two friends opening up a café together, and because of some events that happen, they now have to be honest with one another,” said Alabama-based playwright and actress, Marci Duncan. “They have to talk about things that they have never really talked about before. They dodged it. They’ve ducked it, but they’ve never really had an honest conversation about race.” Kerri Sandell, left, and Marci Duncan. (Screengrab) In the reading, Angela, a Black woman, played by Duncan and Lauren, a White woman,...