It’s summer 2005.
Maya Marsalis takes you by the hand, sometimes the throat, and leads you through her landscape the day Hurricane Katrina came, the levees broke, the world watched and the US Government did nothing.
Go with her, as she shows you how her world and that of thousands of black American citizens changed forever, the day the waters came.
The Door
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Excellent! An authentic performance of the human stories behind the TV pictures. My personal experience of living in N'Awlins (that's how locals pronounce it) and my mother losing her house in Katrina made the play very real. The actors captured the usual response during hurricane season; people never think it's going to be as bad as previous ones - Camille, Betsy, Andrew. But the actors portrayed the gradual horror as it unfolded. At the end, they showed what some of the people of New Orleans already knew, being poor and black puts you at the bottom of the list. The cast showed the final humiliation the citizens of New Orleans felt, being treated as a refugee in their own country. Well done.