10-12 MINUTE ONE-WOMAN PLAY/MONOLOGUE. Velma, a White woman "of a certain age" is shocked to see a person of color walking into her neighbors' house. Turns out the daughter of the White family next door encountered him in Peru during her junior year abroad and now she's brought him home to meet her parents. What if he comes peeking into Velma's windows? And what if he's out in the yard when "the girls" show up for bunco that afternoon? They'll be afraid to get out of their cars! And here she's gone to the trouble of making a special ice box cake for refreshments! She can't wait to tell her best friend all about it. The play is Velma's side of the conversation and uses gossipy humor to illustrate the casual racism of the 1950s and to demonstrate that fear of young Black men is nothing new in American society. Produced by Stage Left Theater of Spokane on Facebook and Vimeo, October 8, 2021.