High Ground

The High Ground

By Nathan Alan Davis
Originally Produced at Arena Stage, Washington, DC

Soldier stands his ground atop Tulsa’s Standpipe Hill for a century, bearing witness to the recurring destruction of Greenwood’s once thriving Black community — first by a violent mob of white citizens, later by years of economic deprivation and neglect, and finally by gentrification. Women who transcend time and space visit Soldier and attempt to offer alternatives to his endless vigil — love, surrender and self-preservation. The High Ground offers a complex portrait of what it means to resist, to persist and how to move forward from devastation.


Director: Megan Sandberg-Zakian