'The Bluest Eye,' Toni Morrison's first novel, is presented at A Noise Within in a stage adaptation by Lydia R. Diamond and directed by Andi Chapman.
Toni Morrison, the author, essayist and winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, famously encouraged would-be writers to take action.Claudia and her sister Frieda have been asked to welcome Pecola into their home after Pecola’s house burned down. Pecola’s parents are always fighting. Her mother, Mrs. Breedlove has run out of patience with her husband, Cholly , who lies about the house all day in a drunken stupor and is unpredictably abusive.
Not even the neighborhood grocer will acknowledge her hello when she comes into his store to buy her favorite candy. Claudia, who serves as narrator , annotates the moment for us: “It’s a total absence of human recognition, a glazed separateness right behind his eye. Pecola has seen interest, disgust, even anger in grown male eyes. But this vacuum has an edge. An edge of distaste that lurks in the eyes of all white people. The distaste is for her Blackness.
The play, like the book, proceeds in scenes of harsh, unforgettable vividness. One scene is devastating not only in its psychological cruelty but also in its forensic analysis of how the poison of white supremacist thinking trickles down.We’ve already witnessed the girls at school confronting Maureen , the pretty, light-skinned girl whose superficial friendliness only thinly conceals arrogant privilege and superiority.
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