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Fair enough; mostenfants terriblegrow intoeminences griseat some point.
But these sober-minded choices come at the expense of a certain crispness and surprise.
There are laughs here, to be sure, but they ring out under a gathering storm cloud.
(Indeed the shoot-Lincoln shtick first appeared in her 1993 absurdist fantasiaThe America Play.)
Here Hawkins, after a few hilarious flails, sinks morosely into an easy chair with a whiskey bottle.
And so it goes throughout.
Leon clearly sees the play in a more straightforwardly tragic register than a complicatedly performative one.
(This probably also explains why last years revival ofAssassinsslayed in unsettling new ways.)
Dystopian literalism bleeds into all the proceedings here, moving like a wheel within a wheel.
Afro-pessimism isnt a genre in which Id usually place Parks, let alone Leon.
I suppose we shouldnt be surprised that this play had another card up its sleeve.
