The Heritage Theatre Festival’s 45th Anniversary season concluded with The Niceties, an incisive, thought-provoking play by Eleanor Burgess. When Zoe, an African-American student, meets with her white professor to discuss a paper about slavery’s role in the American Revolution, what begins as a polite conversation turns into a powder keg of race, history, and power that fundamentally changes both women. The Washington Post called The Niceties “…a barnburner of a play!” and “one of the best plays I’ve seen about who gets to tell our story and how.”   Wales agrees: “Who has told, is telling and will tell our story as a country and as a community? This is a prescient piece as we continue in our efforts to build bridges and to explore the ways in which we talk to one another, and more importantly, how we listen to one another.” Just as it did with last season’s The Mountaintop, Heritage hosted community conversations following each performance of The Niceties.