THEATRE REVIEW: AustinPlayhouse's timely treatise on the space between Black America's past, present, and future.
Prominently displayed on the landscaped southern entrance acreage of the Texas Capitol stands an imposing gray granite monument honoring the soldiers of the Confederacy, with a bronze statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis at the top. That's just one of approximately 2,000 Confederate monuments still on public display nationwide.
It's there that Chelle – a young, Black, and gay interactive sculptural installation artist – has purchased her childhood home, across from the park that housed the statue. She has been commissioned to create a new monument to be placed on the remnant 10-foot-long, 4-foot-wide, 6-foot-high plinth but is struggling to find her voice.
Living with Chelle is her younger brother Willard , also gay and also struggling to find his voice. His"We Belong to Each Other" podcasts, membership in a Resistance Choir, and coordination of a Juneteenth festival in the park do not give him much satisfaction or generate much respect from Chelle.
All three, it seems, are attempting to reconcile the past – their family's, the house, the neighborhood, the Black experience in America – with the present in the hope of setting a path for the future, but they are lost in the space between.
It does not take long to realize that this play is a wordy, distended affair with more telling than showing or doing. Fortunately, the words are brilliant and the playwright has created crazy smart, spirited, and articulate characters to deliver them, which Senior, Edwards, and Wilmont have turned into real and engaging people.
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