[1] The play follows a middle class African-American family as they prepare for a birthday dinner for their grandmother only to be watched by four white people.
[2][3][4] The play begins with an African American woman, Beverly, setting up a birthday party for her mother in an upper-middle class house.
Her family slowly joins her onstage, including her husband Dayton, her sister Jasmine, and her daughter Keisha.
[5] The play premiered Off-Broadway at Soho Repertory Theatre, running from June 17, 2018 through August 12, 2018.
[1] The play was produced at Polonsky Shakespeare Center, Brooklyn, New York by Theatre for a New Audience starting on June 2, 2019, directed by Sarah Benson and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly.
The Pulitzer committee called the play "a hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors' community to face deep-seated prejudices.