✊🏿Trouble in Mind's story of Black actors negotiating racial stereotypes could fit into any year since debuting in 1955.| kerryreid 👇
Through 12/18: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Tue 11/22 2 PM and Fri 11/25 4 PM, no shows Wed-Thu 11/23-11/24, Tue 11/22 and Fri 12/2 socially distanced performances, Fri 12/9 and Sat 12/10 4 PM open captions, Fri 12/16 audio description; TimeLine Theatre, 615 W.
, and it’s about a Black family of sharecroppers in the south whose son, the symbolically named “Job,” faces a lynch mob when he insists on voting. It’s of course written by a white man, and directed by another. And it’s the conflict primarily between that director and star Wiletta Mayer, who plays the mother, that drives the narrative.
But as Manners pushes his own toxic dumbed-down version of Method acting on Wiletta, and as she increasingly feels frustrated by the offensive unbelievability of the story, sparks begin to fly. There’s a difference between a regular old stinkeroo of a play, and one that, like, presents a Black woman willing to sacrifice her own son, and Wiletta knows that difference too well to give in.
Her interplay with the other Black actors in the backstage setting runs from maternal warmth with Vincent Jordan’s Nevins to conspiratorial sisterhood with Tarina J. Bradshaw’s Millie to old-married-folks ease with Kenneth D. Johnson’s Sheldon Forrester. Forrester seems the most malleable of the ensemble, but he stops everyone in their tracks with his story of witnessing a lynching as a child.
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