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‘Home’ Review: Broadway Stages A Loving And Captivating Tribute To The Late Samm-Art Williams In A Terrific Revival Of His Signature Work
Forty-four years after Samm-Art Williams‘ wonderfully affecting Home first opened on Broadway (in a Tony nominated production), the playwright and his signature play were finally about to get a long-hoped-for Broadway revival from the Roundabout Theatre Company. With the acclaimed director Kenny Leon at the helm and a three-actor cast that all but channels the […]
With the acclaimed director Kenny Leon at the helm and a three-actor cast that all but channels the author’s voice and the groundbreaking intensity and rhythms of his ’70s-era work for the Negro Ensemble Company, the revival promised to be a testament to the tenacity of the play and a well-deserved splash of late-career recognition for a once celebrated playwright who would become far better known for producing a trio of 1990s sitcoms ( Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Martin). Featuring a cast that couldn’t be better – Roundabout newcomers Tory Kittles, Brittany Inge and Stori Ayers – Home, after all these years away, remains a powerful depiction of a seemingly ordinary life in an extraordinarily cruel time and place: Cephus Miles is a Black, dirt-poor farmer in the Jim Crow South, his hopes for happiness wrapped up in a school sweetheart who’s about to go off to college. In fairly quick, seamless transitions, the cast, with Inge and Ayers playing a number of roles including a sort of Greek chorus-slash-chorus of Black ancestors, telling tales and pointing the way, Home presents the important and crucial moments in Cephus’ long life.
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