1999 by Stacey Isom Campbell

The regional premiere of Stacey Isom Campbell's 1999 takes the stage at Urbanite Theatre. The drama centers on a tense academic dispute that ignites when a college student protests a professor's decision to screen a film directed by a disgraced filmmaker. Through the escalating conflict, the play interrogates the ethics of separating art from its creator, examining how institutions handle controversial media. Campbell uses the intimate setting to probe the complexities of memory, culpability and the shifting power dynamics within modern education.