Canfield Drive
St. Louis Black Repertory Company

"Calhoun the playwright, billed as Kristen Adele, is stunning in her intense portrayal of Duncan-Ward and other characters..."
"Under development for the past four years, this breathtaking new play takes a hard, serious look at incidents and attitudes surrounding the August 14, 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, the Ferguson protests that followed, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Calhoun and Walker, whose work is well-researched and hard-hitting, use a documentary theatre structure, with many short scenes based on interviews from people around Ferguson and around the nation whose voices might not necessarily have been heard in traditional media coverage..."
"...With just four stellar actors portraying a multitude of interesting characters, the work dives right into the depths of a tough topic, refusing to hold back."
"Canfield Drive, titled after the street where Brown was killed, is the conversation St. Louis and America need right now."
- Broadway World

"Produced in conjunction with the Black Rep, which commissioned the play, Canfield Drive is an ambitious story bravely told. Most of all it's art, powerful and alive at all times, even in its darkest moments. Telling the truth and living always requires bravery, but Calhoun and Walker show more courage than most, walking right into the bloody mess of America's festering Achilles heel, racism. It's painful and honest and, ultimately, cathartic to watch because it doesn't take the easy way out. There are no simple answers to be found at the end, no happy endings discovered in the fires of Ferguson. What Canfield Drive does is show us the next step. One step forward might not seem like much, but it's one step farther than we were yesterday."
"Playwrights Kristen Adele Calhoun and Michael Thomas Walker did the hard work needed to write the new drama Canfield Drive, conducting interviews with a wide swath of people, undergoing a long workshop process with repeated public readings and listening to audience feedback..." - The Riverfront Times
"Playwrights Kristen Adele Calhoun and Michael Thomas Walker did the hard work needed to write the new drama Canfield Drive, conducting interviews with a wide swath of people, undergoing a long workshop process with repeated public readings and listening to audience feedback..." - The Riverfront Times

