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but there I was, as soon as the lights came up.
(Her far more theatrically experienced director Lileana Blain-Cruz does not seem to have aided her sufficiently.)
The framing gadget is her main trouble.
They wont take her until shes ready.
Arent you tired, child?
Tired of fighting for a destiny youve already fulfilled.
/ Tired of fighting yourself.
This sort of syrupy talk is confusing and, repeated over two and half hours, absurd.
Zenziledoes manage to avoid one of the common traps of the biographical portrait musical.
Kakoma solves that issue by skipping a lot (even the highlights) and murmuring through the rest.
Clarity might not be the point, not in something with dreaming in the title.
You are my fourth husband.
Did she marry other people and I missed it?
And … why does she need to tell himthat hes No.
Shes speaking only to us; the logic wobbles..
Even if we are in a dream, Makebas true presence seems too far off.
Still, the music is glorious.
The exhilaration of it makes up for much that has gone before.
Some of that gift … you’re free to buy.
Somi has recordedan albumcalled Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba.
In fact, I am listening to it, dancing in my seat, while I write this review.
Dreaming Zenzileis at New York Theater Workshop through June 26.
