Just in time to wrap up Black History Month comes The Whipping Man, a searing play that takes place in the wake of the Civil War amid the ruins of a plantation and that focuses on three men—one of whom has owned the other two through slavery.

Still, he considers himself to have been kind, given his social situation. But they’re bound through religion and buried secrets.

The Village Voice called the off-Broadway hit by Matthew Lopez “wonderfully satisfying.…The action spools out elegantly as new revelations arise and characterizations deepen.”

We’re sure it will have an equally haunting effect in the intimate Pacific Theatre, under director Anthony F. Ingram, from Friday (February 27) to March 21.