Terminus 2018

Run Time:
2 hr 15 min
Ages: 16+
Opened: February 20, 2018
Closing: February 08, 2018

Terminus - 2018 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

In a lyrical style that blends psychological realism with expressionism, TERMINUS is a family drama that allegorically asks how are white Americans haunted by and continually complicit in the sustained trauma against black Americans. TERMINUS is the second chapter in Dean's The Attapulgus Elegies, a semi-autobiographical collection of plays about the slow fade of an American mill town.

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