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ButTambocracks openExceptionin certain ways; its fortunate that the two plays are being produced so close together.
There will be no school on Monday, the voice says as the door slams behind them.
Have a safe weekend.
Erika is a fish in unfamiliar waters.
But shes also the sort of fish who wastes little time turning bossy with the other sea life.
I thought detention was quiet.
And you leave different than when you came in.
Why else would they put you here?
The answer, of course, is the they and the you are not exactly what they seem.
These teens are up against authority, the state, white supremacy, the system.
Being in detention lands you in detention.
The production, designed by Reid Thompson and Kamil James, is a cage within a cage.
The audience forms a ring of compression around the students.
If they get out of that monstrous schoolroom, theyll still have to deal withus.
And thats whereTambo & Boneslends a hand in understanding.
Erika and Dayrin have their fight, and she leaves.
Oh, how I wanted her to come back.
Exception to the Ruleis at the Roundabouts Steinberg Center for Theatre through June 26.
