Chris (Taylor James William Tyler James Williams), a 13-year-old black child who lives in Brooklyn, New York, has Julius (Terry Cruise Terry Crews), a father who does several low-level jobs and works desperately to support his family, and Rochelle, a vain and capable mother with a loud voice (Tijina Tichina Arnold). There are also troublesome siblings Drew (Tequan Richmond) and Tonya (Imani Hakim). At school age, Chris is sent to a white school by his strict mother, and is unsurprisingly bullied, but he is also lucky to make a good friend-Greg (Vincent Matra Vincent Martella), who is also a doormat because he is thin and pale, and is equally noisy and helpless from home to school every day. Chris always faces all this with an indifferent spirit of self-deprecation. The prototype of Chris in this play is Emmy Award-winning comedian Chris Locke (Chris Rock), and by.
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