American Fiction

Friday, April 5 until Wednesday, April 10, 2024Yukon Theatre

Jeffrey Wright stars in Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure — a wicked satire about the commodification of marginalized voices and a portrait of an artist forced to re-examine his integrity. Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Academy Awards.

In his hilarious directorial debut, Cord Jefferson  confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Content advisory: Mature themes, drug use, coarse language.

Genre: Drama-comedy

“Feels like Jordan Peele snuck a bottle of pepper sauce into Alexander Payne’s Thanksgiving dinner.” – Radheyan Simonpillai, CBC Radio