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Charles Fuller’s play, Zooman and the Sign, is about the impact of inner city violence. Zooman roams the streets of New York delivering a freewheeling monologue on his wild life. Meanwhile, Rachel Tate orders her daughter, Jinny, out of the house. As Jinny goes out on the stoop, Zooman spots an opponent in the crowded street, and starts shooting, accidentally killing Jinny. Rueben Tate, Rachel’s estranged husband, comes home to grieve, while police canvas the neighborhood for witnesses. No one admits to seeing a thing, although Jinny’s older brother, Victor, hears the murderer is Zooman. For his part, Zooman is unrepentant, blaming the death on the girl being in the wrong place at the wrong time. “How’m I suppose to feel guilty about that?” he says. Frustrated by the lack of witnesses, Reuben decides to put up a sign on his house to shame his neighbors into talking. It reads: “THE KILLERS OF OUR DAUGHTER JINNY ARE FREE ON THE STREETS BECAUSE OUR NEIGHBORS WILL NOT IDENTIFY THEM.” The sign backfires, enraging most neighbors and attracting TV crews. The night after Jinny’s memorial service, a brick crashes through the living room window and Rachel implores Rueben to take down the sign, but he refuses. Later that