Tice Hogan has a thing for apples.

Playwright Naomi Wallace?s principal character in the play “Things of Dry Hours,” Tice (Roger Robinson) expresses a childlike delight and a philosopher?s fascination for this particular piece of fruit, exploring the dichotomy between the apple?s “white flesh” and the black seeds at the core. Is the apple a metaphor for the struggle between races, classes, fathers and daughters, the educated and ignorant, the civilized and barbarians, the poor black Communists and the rich whites who run Tennessee Coal and Iron in 1932 Alabama, the setting of the play?