Mother and son fight to stay afloat in 'Pipeline' at Studio Theatre
The pipeline in the title of Dominique Morisseau's play is the "school-to-prison pipeline" affecting young African-American men. Fueled, as Studio Theatre's dramaturgical notes explain, by a combination of in-school police officers, harsh zero-tolerance policies, and funding shortfalls, the pipeline progresses from the classroom to suspension or expulsion to juvenile court to adult prison, feeding the […] The post …