“With its four unforgettable final words, 'Redwood' (the play is named for one of America’s oldest, tallest, most resilient conifers) dares us to listen to the past and come to terms with our nation’s own fraught family tree.”
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" "Redwood" is far from being a perfect play; its brief-ish running time is, arguably, too crowded with developments and most of the characters could use more detail and shading."
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“This play will challenge you to probe the painful pasts of people whose remarkable strength resembles ‘Redwood’–but you can also expect to laugh along with fantastic characters whose resilience relies on humor as a survival strategy. It is a comedy, after all.”
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"The presentation—in the midst of a sweaty gym class, music blaring, all the others outpacing Stevie —might be comical, yet the idea is anything."
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If an audience can willingly get past the contrivance that the distant relative Stevie meets over coffee, a young white man whose family generations ago once owned (and fathered!) slaves in Stevie’s family, and who just so happens to be the live-in boyfriend of Stevie’s niece Meg, then the audience will have a good time. The four leads of Meg, her boyfriend Drew, her mom Beverly, and Beverly’s twin brother Stevie are written so well. We care so much about each of them that the revelation that they are intertwined by the horrific tale of a plantation owner that loved his slave but was not above slashing her tendons when she tried to run away sets a tone that should be devoid of all humor.
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“...this is the play for all to see, for all to understand the struggles of our interracial planet! You will laugh your way to understanding the knowledge and beauty of our world. This is the perfect ensemble. The cast and crew work together in stylized harmony to bring this gift to us.”
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