Written by Young Jean Lee
Directed by Marcus Stern
Featuring Actors from the A.R.T. Institute class of 2016
A talented cast of 5 African-American performers create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about race and culture.
“Cultural images of black America are tweaked, pulled and twisted like Silly Putty in this subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. Ms. Lee, who is Korean-American, consciously set herself the uncomfortable task of creating what she calls a “black identity-politics show… Ms. Lee sets you thinking about how we unconsciously process experience — at the theater, or in life — through the filter of racial perspective, and how hard it can be to see the world truly in something other than black and white.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times
“This is so ingenious a twist, such a radical bit of theatrical smoke and mirrors, that, in rethinking everything that has come before … we are forced to confront our own preconceived notions of race. And to agree with Lee that we may not live long enough to purge ourselves of them.” — Hilton Als, New Yorker
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