Review: Diversionary's 'High Table' resounds with emotional mix of joy and tragedy

Diversionary Theatre is the first in America to stage British playwright Temi Wilkey’s “The High Table.” It’s an immersive production that fills the University Heights space with percussive sound and, as its story situated in parallel worlds unfolds, both anguish and love.

But San Diego is only one of three settings in “The High Table.” There’s Lagos, Nigeria, the heritage nation of protagonist Tara and her family. There’s also an ancestral realm, which according to Yoruba African cosmology is populated by relatives who have died and are resting, awaiting reincarnation, or in this case, acting as intermediaries looking down on their descendants.

It’s when the side story of father Segun’s gay brother in Nigeria, Teju , is introduced that the tragic consequences of bigotry and intolerance come to the fore. In this second half of the play, the stakes are elevated and the impact of what Wilkey, who was in the audience at Diversionary on opening night, is saying about homophobia, family and colonialism at its most inhumane takes hold.

Tara and Leah’s love story, to a great extent its own reflection on what it means to care for someone as they really are, is fraught with many of the complications that all relationships go through, especially when family intrudes. Agosto and Henderson make Tara and Leah relatable in their disconnections and their tenderness.

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