Help

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Help, a new play by acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine, explores how white men think about their privilege. Watch the video above to learn more about Rankine and her interest in navigating questions of race in order to provoke dialogue around what it means for a life to matter in America today.  

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Help

Written by Claudia Rankine
Directed by Taibi Magar
Starring Roslyn Ruff
The Griffin Theater

March 10 – April 5

Acclaimed poet and playwright Claudia Rankine (Citizen: An American Lyric, The White Card) examines the nature of white male privilege in Help, a powerful new play commissioned by The Shed.

Roslyn Ruff (Theater: Fairview; Film: Marriage Story; TV: Divorce, Pose) stars as the Narrator, who recounts Rankine’s real-life conversations with white men that take place in transitional spaces like airports. As the stories unfold through monologues and staged scenarios, with Ruff supported by a cast of white male actors and dancers, Help explores how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions.

Directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar (Is God Is, Soho Rep), Help builds on Rankine’s ongoing investigation into whiteness, elements of which were shared in her recent, widely read New York Times Magazine essay, “I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.”