BY LYDIA DIAMOND
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY TONI MORRISON
DIRECTED BY ERIC TING
CO-PRODUCED BY LONG WHARF THEATRE AND HARTFORD STAGE

The Bluest Eye tells the haunting story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl coming of age in the racially turbulent 1940s. Her feelings ignored or scorned by the people around her, love always just out of reach, Pecola dreams of having blue eyes, eyes that she thinks will make her stop being invisible to the people around her, eyes that will spare her from the meanness of the world.

This inventive production captures the lyricism and poetry of Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel and delves into the meaning of beauty and how much impact community plays on the development of the human spirit.