In ‘Fairview,’ the Light of Truth and Its Reflection

AMERICAN THEATRE: I recently saw Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning play Fairview with my mother. Like Drury, whose parents are from Jamaica, my parents also come from the Caribbean—Trinidad and St. Vincent, specifically. There they were not minorities; their brown skin was the default. It was upon their arrival in this country that they first tasted the bitterness of racial discrimination.