American Fiction

Cord Jefferson’s smart and subversively funny directorial debut, nominated for 5 Oscars, puts our society's fixation on cultural stereotypes under the microscope. Adapted from Percival Everett's 2001 novel "Erasure," the film stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a professor and frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on offensive tropes. Aiming for satire, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain. Plays all weekend in back-to-back shows.