Her Texas home was built by a cotton fortune. So she's giving it away. 'Plantation' goes for laughs from racism and reparation.
The premise of Kevin Douglas's "Plantation," now at the Lookingglass Theatre in downtown Chicago under the direction of David Schwimmer, is a doozy. A modern-day Texas matriarch comes to realize that her family's cotton fortune was built on the backs of the slave-driven economy and, in a grand...