Honky at San Diego Repertory Theatre

Honky is a hilarious new comedy not afraid to ask dicey questions and offer daring answers.

Inspired by his experience as a writer of TV commercials, Greg Kalleres’ irreverent satire begins with the shooting of< a young black teenager because of his trendy new “Sky Max” basketball shoes. The comedy goes on to reveal secrets about steamy cross–racial love affairs, bring onstage hallucinations of a drunken Abraham Lincoln and a foul-mouthed Frederick Douglass, and promote a pill that promises to cure racism.