sort film titled, "History of Walker Smith House", and several folding chairs, a small stage, and a World War II Aircraft exhibit are present. The small stage in the annex, the area of folding chairs, and the carriage room are the main set pieces for the play. There is also a room downstage from which the Asst. Curator brings more folding chairs. A radio plays the whole time. It is a chaotic hour before the Children's Day play. Staging Kennedy includes two pages of instructions for the set pieces. The notes for the various set pieces are somewhat cryptic, and are listed below: The set Mural - is violent abstract lines Bright Crayons Aircraft Photographic Exhibit - dark Film - logical Radio - subliminal - incomplete Panels for the Set - very detailed realistic, oil paintings, accurate historical detail Play practice - out of sequence, illogical Panels The panels are realistic representations of what is happening on stage. The Children will draw on these panels throughout the play; there are five specific scenes on these panels. They are listed below: Negroes on "Lection Day" Free African Society Meeting in the Store Room The Ship Vine at the Port before Sailing to Liberia Nearby Indian Battle Lost Slaves Landing on New England Coast These panels are realistic, and historically accurate in oil paints. Plot summary Black Children's Day does not follow a linear structure, though it depicts a chaotic hour before the Children's Day Play. A note from the author at the start of the play indicates that "The most important thing about the play is that things happen simultaneously." Throughout the entire play, The Children paint whatever is happening on stage onto the murals. The more chaotic the scene is, the more ferociously The Children paint. The Asst. Curator is also showing fragmented films throughout the play. The short one-act opens with The Children reciting a fragmented poem about the state of World War II. This poetic passage is repeated throughout the play, and mentions Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. A very general plot begins, when we are introduced to The General, who fights with the landlord's men about his right to vote on "Lection Day", in 1840. The scene abruptly transitions to Caroline, who sings an 1840s song while The Children dance a 'Lection Day' dance. The Children then recite very fragmented passages about