Ritual: a play in two acts

"Honest and unsettling." -L.A. Times "A brilliant shocker of a play." -Drama-logue "Clay's poetic, image-filled rhythmic language gives this play texture and richness." -Daily Breeze "This tremendously risky play confounds all stereotypical assumptions." -Chicago Tribune "Sets black upper crust L.A. on its ear." -L.A. Sentinel "An emotional roller coaster ride." -L.A. Weekly "If you're into denial, stay home." -Entertainment Today NAACP Theatre Award Drama-logue Award L.A. Times Critics' Choice L.A. Weekly Pick-of-the-Week Set in the 1980's, this award-winning and controversial four-character domestic drama explores the dysfunctional dynamics at work beneath an affluent African-American family's appearance of perfection. The husband & father, a lawyer, is in denial about his family crisis, and is equally detached from his ethnic soul. The wife & mother, a former actress, is on the verge of alcoholism and is threatened by her cunning daughter in the home and perhaps the bedroo