Black Lies Bobbie has returned to his impoverished home with the hopes of getting his half of his inheritance before his father dies. He is certain, in fact, that the money is actually in their apartment, that his father has been sleeping with it under his mattress. What his sister, Edie, doesn't tell him, is that their father has died just two days before. Instead, she sets up a charade whereby she brings him boxes to open, and they search for the money together. As Edie uses the memories found in each box to bring them closer together, to re-establish her family, her efforts to romanticize the past pushes Bobby towards a violent realization of the betrayals that brought him to adulthood. Two African-American males (early twenties and mid fifties) and one African-American woman (mid twenties); single set. Performance History: [2005] Tabia Theatre (San Jose, CA) Staged Reading [2005] City Lights Theatre (San Jose, CA) Staged Reading {2004] Second Wind Productions (SF) Staged Reading Format: A full length play in two acts (one intermission); total playing time 100 minutes Read: sample pages. Performance rights and royalties: Rights and Contact Playwright's Notes: ~