Pipeline

Penumbra Theatre
270 N. Kent St St. Paul

In Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline, Omari is caught between two worlds. Raised in the city, he attends a private college preparatory school upstate, far from his roots and his family. His mother, Nya, is walking a tightrope: send him away and risk the dangers of discrimination, or keep him near and tempt the trouble waiting on the block. After a run in with a white teacher, the halls of his elite school turn out to be as unsafe as the city's streets. A searing story of a mother trying to protect her young son from a world that can't see the little boy she loves.