Join us for the special Black Out Night performance of A Hit Dog Will Holler (by Inda Craig-Galván), a show that explores what it means to be Black in America– about and performed by Black artists. This evening's performance of the Chicago premiere is dedicated to and in celebration of Black audience members. If you are a Black individual and would like to be a part of this special evening, we'd love to see you there!

What is a Black Out?

A Black Out is the purposeful creation of an environment in which a Black audience can experience and discuss an event in the performing arts, film, athletic, and cultural spaces where they are the majority. A concept birthed by Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris, the inaugural BLACK OUT night took place on September 18, 2019. For the first time in history, all 804 seats of Broadway’s Golden Theatre were occupied by Black audience members in communion, celebration, and recognition of Broadway’s rich, diverse, and fraught history of Black work. Based on the success of the first BLACK OUT, Slave Play hosted a second BLACK OUT on January 8, 2020, to bookend its Broadway run. Since then, other BLACK OUT events have organically taken hold. Learn more at blackoutnite.com.

What Can I Expect?

The intention behind this performance is to provide a supportive, safe, judgment-free space for Black theatregoers to experience a show made by Black artists in a space reserved for the Black community. The audience will be a majority of Black audience members.

Are Non-Black People Excluded from this Performance?

The intention for this performance is to create a space for as many Black audience members as possible. We are not preventing or precluding anyone from attending, but hope that non-Black audience members will choose to experience the play at another performance. Thank you for your support of Artemisia and the artist involved in this production. 

When racism and oppression manifest in a scary, physical form, a social media influencer and a boots-on-the-ground activist form a complex bond of friendship to help each other survive. The play, first drafted in workshop with the Humanitas Play L.A. Prize, explores the effects of a never-ending barrage of trauma on the women who are continually looked at to lead a movement of resistance and change. What happens when there's no more outside space for the growing monster that is American racism?

Written by Inda Craig-Galván

Directed by Myesha-Tiara