She's one of four black students at the center of the film, another one of whom is Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P Bell), a big man on campus and the head of the traditionally black residence hall, which is being broken up through the university's "randomization" of housing.
The film takes place at the fictional Winchester University, an Ivy-League-type school whose small population of black students has been roiled by new housing rules that have effectively eliminated the school's only traditionally black residence hall, Armstrong Parker House.
Stipulating that a work be performed in a pitch-black hall sounds potentially gimmicky, but in this case it isn't — it renders the experience initially disorienting, then intoxicating.
Inside a pitch-black hall the size of a football field, a trio of surveillance drones whir overhead, honing in on visitors when they detect movement.
The only All Blacks Hall of Famer to debut in the 1970s was flanker Graham Mourie.
In a nondescript industrial building on the south side of Hong Kong Island, there is a portal into the abyss, a series of pitch-black halls and walkways designed to disorient the senses and present art in a radically different way.
Athletes came to him proposing a black sports hall of fame, while performers suggested an entertainment hall of fame.
Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase is published by Michael Joseph in July.
In his frustration at not being able to increase black enrollment, Hall looks back to better days he spent just up the road at Northwestern University, in suburban Evanston, Ill.
As an example of authenticity, Ms. Pinkney cited the setting of Mr. Sharpton's show, a barbershop, which is a kind of black town hall.
