This was a very innovative production, a fusion of cadence, poetry, drama and percussion. Four performers mostly alternating monologues breath life into stories of New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina hit, and now years later. The telling is an indictment of our nonchalance towards the victims there, and the story uses Katrina as a mechanism to point a spotlight at many of the ills of American society, and especially those related to it's class divide.
I think this piece was successful when it talked about Katrina directly. At times though, the shear volume of social ills it attempted to spotlight becomes overwhelming and numbing. Perhaps more focus on a smaller set of issues would have been more poignant.
From an artistic standpoint, this was very well done. The performers were all excellent, and this innovative drama provides a nice break from the formulas I am more accustomed to seeing.
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