Suffocating in rat-infested poverty on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s 20-year-old Bigger Thomas struggles to find a place for himself in a world whose prejudice has shut him out. After taking a job in a wealthy white man's house Bigger unwittingly unleashes a series of events that violently and irrevocably seal his fate. Adapted with theatrical ingenuity by Chicago's own Nambi E. Kelley this
Native Son
captures the power of Richard Wright's novel for a whole new generation.