‘It’s very much relevant today’: the onewoman show on Charlottesville
Mar 30, 2025
Priyanka Shetty combines personal and political in #Charlottesville, a play that explores the deadly 2017 white supremacist rallyShe had moved from India to live the American dream. Priyanka Shetty came to study acting at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a liberal place of clipped lawn
s and classical architecture rated in one survey as the happiest city in America.But what she found was isolation and discomfort because of her race and, as the era of Donald Trump dawned, a nation on the cusp of hostility towards immigrants like her. Then came a white supremacist march through Charlottesville and an explosion of racist violence that left one woman dead. Continue reading... ...read more read less