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Winner of the 2004 Kesselring Prize for Playwriting
“Slick, smart and engrossing.” —Charles Isherwood, Variety
Rookie journalist Yvonne arrives at her first big job determined to prove herself as a serious investigative reporter, only to be segregated with the other Black reporters at Outlook, a section of the paper focusing on human interest pieces in the Black community. When an incendiary lead comes to light, she pursues it with the hope of uncovering the truth of a murder—even if it defies her editor's orders.
Inspired by real events, The Story explores the elusive nature of truth as the boundaries between reality and fiction, morality, and ambition become dangerously blurred.
“[The Story] has both the insight and anger to ask the complex human questions that all too often get edited out of our superficial news cycle…Wilson exposes the story behind the story, which is exactly what we want dramatists to do.”
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“Wilson uses a failed writer’s lies as a jumping point to her own voice. It’s a voice that is deeply emotional, deeply intellectual, and deeply musical—the most modern blues imaginable.”
—Hilton Als, New Yorker
“A potent dramatic form for a provocative examination of the ways in which considerations of race affect the media, both behind the scenes and on the front pages.”
—Charles Isherwood Variety
“Wilson realistically poses more questions than she answers, and she does so with a stylish, attention-holding script that ends on a chilling note that will leave viewers with much to talk about.”
—Elyse Sommer, Curtain Up
Tracey Scott Wilson’s other plays include Exhibit #9, Leader of the People, Order My Steps, Neon Mirage, The Good Negro, and Buzzer. She is a recipient of the Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the AT&T Onstage Award, a Whiting Award, the Kesselring Prize, an L. Arnold Weissmuller Award, a Joyce Award, and a writer-in-residency at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. As a television writer, Wilson was a recipient of the Peabody Award, and was nominated for both a Writers Guild of America Award and an Emmy.