The MuCCC is hosting a performance of Ameri/Cain Gothic A Mystery in Two Acts by Paul Carter Harrison.

On the eve of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an unlikely pair finds themselves navigating the present through their unreconciled violent and sexualized "ghosts" of the past. For mature audiences, this gothic tale breaches the haunting of America's past with the complicity of its present. Enter I.W. Harper, a private investigator, in town to provide security detail for a civil rights leader in Memphis on what would later be the eve of his assassination. In an act of reconnoitering, he crosses paths in a rooming house with Cass Pruitt, a reclusive woman "haunted" by her past lovers and sexual assaults. In this multi-layered piece, Paul Carter Harrison cooks up a gothic gumbo, adding one morsel after another, all the while allowing the meal to heat until it reaches the boiling point of analysis and critique … does America have a predilection to violence and sexual assault … were the people who loved King the most too distracted to protect him…

[source: MuCCC website, 2016-Feb-29]