{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars with her teenage daughter, each coping in her own way with personal tragedy and loss. The volatility of their situation is intensified when a severely damaged and devastatingly handsome stranger becomes an integral part of their lives.\"--Back cover\n\n\"Serial Black Face is the seventh winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. At once startling, engrossing, suspenseful, and exhilarating, Nabers's powerful drama employs a real-life nightmare, the Atlanta Child Murders of the late 1970s, to incisively examine human frailty and the prickly complexities of a mother-daughter relationship. A stunning theatrical work, both thoughtful and profoundly moving, Serial Black Face is richly deserving of this year's prize.\"--Page 4 of cover."}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-24T02:49:13.787912"}, "title": "Serial black face", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-13T11:38:07.577685"}, "covers": [10011030], "subject_places": ["Atlanta", "Georgia"], "subjects": ["Drama", "African Americans", "Mother and child", "American drama", "Serial murders", "Drama (dramatic works by one author)"], "latest_revision": 2, "key": "/works/OL19664971W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7512501A"}}], "subject_times": ["21st century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "revision": 2}