In Care

by  Williams, Kenneth T.

Published: 2017

Acts: 1

Language: English

Category: Drama

Acts: 1
Male Roles: 1
Female Roles: 3
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

In Care is about a mother’s quest to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, was addicted to cocaine, and had her first daughter taken from her when she was just 15. But she’s since turned her life around, and is a good mother to three happy girls — until a false accusation gets them apprehended by foster care. Now, Janice is trapped in the system like a butterfly in a spider’s web: the more she struggles to get out the more stuck she gets. In care is both an indictment of the racism that’s inherent in our system and a tribute to the strength people as disadvantaged as Janice must have in order to survive.