Black play satirizes effects of racism and stereotypes

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American Black culture. It relates how racism controls a race of people by attacking their definition of what it Against a backdrop of a "living museum," a series of comical skits are performed. While poking fun at stereo types, the scenes also focus on the struggle to reclaim a In one of the skits, "The Photo Session," we are made aware of the high cost of selling one's blackness as a commodity in the advertising world. A glossy facade of happiness and "perfection" obscures the reality of selling out: "No contradictions, no pain—no gain," the "The Hairpiece" touches upon stereotypes of beauty within the Black community. In this clever skit, two wigs (the "Natural" vs. the "Barbie-doll" look), engage in a conversation with their owner, revealing how white standards of beauty have warped Black women's sense of Racism in this instance has been inverted to inflict self-hatred. Says one wig to another, "She done fried, dechemicalized, and lost her hair. The bitch is bald!" "The Last-Mama-on-the-Couch Play" is a mock melodrama about racism, performed in high soap-opera style. This skit pokes fun at a variety of stereotypes— from the Bible-thumping grandma, to the radical "sistuh" who stands in solidarity with her "sistuhs" everywhere, to brother Walter—who denounces "The Man" for all his Walter dies, but rapidly comes back to life. As mama says, no one ever dies in an all-Black musical. "If we In the Eureka Theatre production, directed by Claude Purdy, the play's parade of skits were presented against a "Somebody has chopped up pieces of my pain and put background of slide projections taken from magazine it on display against white walls and the wrong kind of light, so that when I go searching for my reflection, the Before coming to San Francisco, "The Colored scattered images make me feel incomplete."-George Museum" was produced as part of the New York Shakespeare Festival, where performances were sold out for over a year. The production later moved to London.

In association with the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, This is not a play to dwell on. But if you'd like an George Wolfe's "The Colored Museum" recently played evening's entertainment that is light and humorous but rich with social insight, catch this play if it comes to The play takes a satirical look at stereotypes within Wolfe dance skit with .V. Allen Taylor and Velina at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco.

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