The Guthrie did themselves proud tonight with Tony Kushner's Caroline. Caroline is an African American maid working in the basement of a while home in Lake Charles, LA. The time is November 1963, after Kennedy's death. Caroline is a single mother with four children to raise on a maid's salary.
Change is all around but Caroline resists even though her reality is very bleak. Her best friends says to her: "I know it hurts to change. It actually hurts, learning something new, and when you're full grown, it's harder, that's true-it feel like your going to break yourself apart, it feel like your going to break your own heart, but folks do it. They do. Every day, all the time, Alone, afraid, folks like you. You got to let go of where you've been. Move on from the place you're in. Don't drown in that basement. Change or sink. Let go, forget, move on. This ain't time for prayin'. You got to think."
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