Weak choices undermine the hard-hitting angst that drives this play
Here, we find Nya , a dedicated inner-city English teacher who sends her own son, Omari , to a private boarding school financed by her ex-husband, Xavier , in order to protect the young man from the fate of the students she teaches. But Omari is in danger of expulsion and legal action after assaulting a teacher who he believes singled him out unfairly and provoked him during a class discussion about why young Black men living in poverty descend into acts of violence.
So too does Morisseau's own writing, where harsh realities are exposed through rich dialogue and passionate monologues infused with heightened language and distinctively expressive free-verse poetry. All this gives voice to the profound feelings of exasperation and foreboding anxiety that weigh down each character, whose lives have become an ongoing exercise of helplessness and futility. These feelings drive this play. Unfortunately, they don't always drive this production.
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