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Yes, they really said that.
Nowadays, we are just more subtle.
In the mid-1920's, the son of a white multimillionaire commits the shocking social transgression of marrying his
racially mixed sweetheart.
Bride and groom end up riveting the nation as the stars of a sensational trial fraught with social, sexual and racial anxiety. The language and spectacle of that scandal reverberate across the decades.
"TAINTED" is a Two Act play based on the explosive Rhinelander trial that gripped and shook a nation.
8 men - 6 women
(4 multiracial - 10 white)
Perusal script and info at
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