Liberty city, a multi-character solo play performed by April Yvette
Thompson, directed by Jessica Blank, is inspired by April's childhood
in 1970s Miami and her family's journey through the end of the Black
Power movement. Co-written by April Yvette Thompson and Jessica Blank
(The Exonerated), it is the story of April's Miami: a place where
colonized people from throughout the African diaspora have gathered,
intermarried, bought homes, raised families, vote and still see
themselves as immigrants. a place where the big city and the islands
rub up against each other, where some immigrants wrestle their way up
into the corridors of power while others continue to struggle, where
histories and countries coalesce and intermingle to make a new
American story.

Enter April Yvette Thompson, the daughter of a Bahamian and Cuban
father and an African American mother, but not just any old Afro-Cuban
Caribbean-American mix. Her parents were children of the sixties in
every way: young militants, free thinkers, movement people and
sometimes just plain poor. April spent her days on scholarship as the
only black girl at Miami's most exclusive prep school and her nights
and mornings in liberty city, the site of Miami's infamous 1980s
riots. As the hope of the sixties and seventies gave way to the
disintegration and violence of the eighties, April's family struggled
to survive and stay together, and April learned to pick up the pieces
where her parents left off.

April 's story is the story of the children of children of the sixties
who were not quite all American. It's a story of a sprawling family
marked by tragedy and bound by fierce love, a history cross-pollinated
by six different cultures, a patchwork of old feuds and surprising
alliances. It is the story of her Miami: a place shaped by immigrants
and islands, by intermarriage and rebellion, by history and struggle
and love.