September 22, 2011 Theater » Theater Feature

Effing Great 

Hattiloo takes on Morrison; Next Stage does Mamet.

by Chris Davis
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is an improbably light play about impossibly heavy things like madness, abuse, rape, and racial identity. Narrated almost entirely by children, even the nightmare scenes are tempered by a sense of excitement and wonder that makes it…

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