Over one fitful night a man is visited by three ghosts that terrorize him into reexamining his life and his entire way of thinking. But this isn’t Ebenezer Scrooge being taught the meaning of Christmas. It’s Lewis, an erudite professor of the philosophy of mathematics, being prodded by three generations of his own family to come to terms with being a Black man in America.
His wife, a White woman, may not be the best person to judge his relationship with his own Blackness, but Lewis’ deceased brother, grandfather and great-grandfather have come more or less to do the same. Unlike Dickens’ ghosts, the three are not really separate visitations. They morph in and out of each other, representing different ages and stages of their lives. That occasionally makes it hard to keep track of who’s speaking at the beginning of a story, though any confusion doesn’t last long.
Lewis’ displays of ignoring the ghosts while actually paying close attention are sometimes ludicrous, but both performers are terrific, bringing out the considerable humor in the play alongside its potent reminders of the institutionalized racism that has always pervaded and in many ways defined this nation’s history and culture.
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