The Double Feature begins with Burden of Proof by Cris Eli Blak, about a Black couple in 2016 clashing over the lawyer wife’s decision to accept a case defending a White supremacist who has lynched a Black boy. Anita hopes the high-profile case will advance her career, but her husband Lakeith warns her she’s being used by her firm because of her skin color. Their domestic strife alternates with Lakeith’s classroom lectures on “Native Son,” Richard Wright’s 1940 novel on the destructive power of systemic racism.
Wedding Bash by Andrew Leeds and Lindsey Kraft, finishes the show- a comedic story in which Lonny and Dana have returned from their destination wedding in Sedona. Alan and Edi, two of their wedding guests, are now visiting them and talk turns to their memories of the wedding. To Lonny and Dana, it was fabulous but to Alan and Edi, not so much. Their guests end up verbalizing what most of us only think but would never dare say out loud to hilarious effect.