THE STORY: Rufus is a black drifter, who is found one day on a park bench by Bruce, a young, white biochemist. Bruce is conducting a series of experiments…to turn black people into white people! After much amusing banter, Rufus seems convinced, goes off to Bruce’s apartment, and the forbidding Jekyll/Hyde transformation begins. But Daisy, Bruce’s black girlfriend, is full of half-spoken fears and voluble jealousies. She knows something of the dangers involved, based on the results of the previous experiments, but she is a willing and anxious subject and was to be in Rufus’ place on the schedule. So, the loaded situation runs its course, moving from light-hearted chatter to ominous tongue-lashings, and then rushes headlong to its hair-raising and perhaps inexorable, Greek-like conclusion.
“Frank Cucci has written nothing less than a simple little masterpiece.” —Cue Magazine.
