Priyanka Shetty was a graduate theatre student when white supremacists rallied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue on campus just before the start of the fall semester. Dozens of people brandishing Confederate flags and lit tiki torches surrounded the statue. The next day, counter-protestors collided with the neo-Nazis demonstrators. One woman died after a white nationalist plowed into her and others with his car.
In the years that followed, Shetty turned the rally, its aftermath and the civil trial into a one-woman play called “#Charlottesville.” She’s bringing it to Louisville next week for one night only. Shetty used personal accounts from people who took part in the rally as well as others who were affected by it to tell the story on stage.
At her university, she said she noticed “something odd.”…