BRUTAL IMAGINATION
A One-Night Reading Benefiting The Innocence Project
By Cornelius Eady
Directed by Joe Morton
April 7 2025, 7PM
Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014
Based on Cornelius Eady’s award-winning poetry cycle, Brutal Imagination is a powerful examination of the notorious 1994 incident in which Susan Smith, a white woman in South Carolina, claimed that a Black man had kidnapped her children. The FBI conducted a nationwide search for the man for nine days until Smith confessed that she had invented the Black man and that she had in fact drowned her children. Brutal Imagination, two voices inside one consciousness, brings this invented man to life.
