The Race Play

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I was fortunate enough that a friend of mine who has an annual subscription to the ACT theater in San Francisco had to leave the town one day.
As she was leaving the town, she informed me that she possesses a ticket for a play. The play was "The Race" by Tom Stoppard, a famous British play writer, and it received very high acclaims in the reviews already. To be fair to say, the play topic is highly controversial as it deals with race relations between blacks and white in America today.

On the day of the play, I dressed up wearing my nice pants and a dress shirt, and drove to downtown San Francisco scheduling my time so I can be sure to be on time in the theater.
When I arrived to ACT, I went in handed my ticket, received a copy of the program from a nice lady and …show more content…

It starts by a mature white man (the white is relevant here) arriving to a prestigious law firm.
The firm does have a partner who is well known and also is black. Again, the black is relevant here. The man tells his story. He is a highly respected president of a highly respected company, but he has a big legal problem. The problem, he explains, is that he recently met a woman in a bar; the woman was black, again it is relevant here, and they engaged in a recreational exciting sex.
Subsequently, the woman, perhaps after finding out that he is rich and socially highly positioned, accused him of raping her.
In the conversation with the law firm, he makes it clear that he wants to have a black lawyer to represent him, and the lawyer and the firm agree to represent him. The black lawyer is supported by a legal assistant who is black and the lawyer thinks very highly of her capabilities and education. They, the man, the lawyer, and his assistant, meet many times to discuss the particulars of this case and discuss different defense plans to handle the what the man says is an unjustified accusation.

The attorney seems to be believe his client and even finds a way to

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