Aurora Theatre Company, Cassidy Brown, Dawn L- Troupe, Keith Josef Adkins, L- Peter Callender, Lance Gardner, local theater, plays, theater review Aurora Theatre Company, Cassidy Brown, Dawn L- Troupe, Keith Josef Adkins, L- Peter Callender, Lance Gardner, local theater, plays, theater review

Freedom, dreams clash in Aurora's Safe House

There are several ways to interpret the title of Keith Josef Adkins' Safe House now at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre Company. One way sees cobbler Addison Pedigrew, a free man of color in Kentucky, aiming for his version of the American dream: a thriving shoe making/repairing business run out of his home to support his Aunt Dorcas and his brother, Frank, so that they can be truly free to thrive and expand their families. The other way, according to Frank and Dorcas, is to provide shelter and assistance to fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Both co-exist, but not easily in this 2014 drama, which takes much of its first act to really get going.

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