Black-white relations are constructed in the play as VERY generic and stereotyped.
At first I felt that way, mainly through the dialogue of the offstage white actors in what felt to me like "the second act". But then when the white actors start to participate in the drama, taking over black roles, morphing into them, I found that the play reached another dimension of critique. I was particularly struck by what seemed to me to be the gay male voice that found its way into embodying the sassy homegirl in the "third act". |
