Storyline This drama deals with the sad division between what a man hopes for and
what he achieves. In the title role, Dick Anthony Williams (The Mack)
portrays a naïve, ambitious, recklessly optimistic man who finds himself
in difficulty because of his unrealistic hopes. Directed by Tony-winner
Lloyd Richards ("Fences") , and featuring Oscar-winner Louis Gossett,
Jr. (Carolina Skeletons).
Storyline Set in Chicago in the early nineteen‐sixties, the story focuses on the
push‐pull relationship between an elderly, domineering mother and her
aging, repressed and lonely daughter. As the two characters circle each
other in their tight little world of bitterness and love, a blind street
singer, looking for a woman he had loved years ago, stumbles into their
ghetto apartment and precipitates a confrontation between the two women
and with themselves.
Storyline The First Breeze of Summer follows a turbulent time in a working class African-American family,
where two unhappy sons come to a head with their stern, overworked
father, while the grandmother wistfully recalls her long-lost youthful
affairs.