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Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of sexual violation and torture among young women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Kilimanjaro of a play -- and it takes a mountain climber of an actress to scale its lofty peaks. Nottage modeled the swaggering character of Mama Nadi, who runs a bar and brothel in a Congo rainforest, after Bertolt Brecht's indomitable Mother Courage. But don't tell Mama that. She is her own life force, beholden to no one. At the Black Rep, she... More »
What an audacious season the Black Rep mounted this year. At a time when a moribund economy encouraged the downsizing of theater, the Black Rep sneered into the gloomy face of reality and presented super-sized productions. They didn't merely produce plays; they assaulted them. The result was a veritable barrage of drama and comedy. The season opened with a sumptuous staging of Shakespeare's rarely seen Pericles, Prince of Tyre, then followed that with another large-cast offering, Lynn... More »
Nowhere in the script does it call for an all-cast, three-number dance scene, and yet there one was in the first act of Romeo and Juliet, a glorious Motown dance party in fair Verona. Shakespeare's script also doesn't specify that Mercutio should gradually break down into hysterical fear while delivering his "Queen Mab" speech on the nature of dreams, nor should all the murders be committed with one peripatetic switchblade that always seems to kill the person who last wielded it, and yet... More »
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