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Shange died last year, still hoping to see this production staged.
But all of them have a particular intensity, a way of coming direct from author to audience.
In moments, Shange walks with us again.
Yet once the wounds are spoken about and danced about, they turn into healing balms.
The audience has its experience, certainly, carried along by sound and courage and beauty.
Even though Ive just recommended that you go seefor colored girls(recently extended!
Pencils down, voting over.
The stagecraft decisions are extremely simple.
I was happy to see that even without the element of surprise,Is This A Roompunches hard.
Yet this is reality, right?
At the curtain call, she is still shaking;hell,Iwas still shaking.
Davis clearly knows it; and its traumatizing her.
In her skinless, electrifying performance, we see the cost of such shamanistic channeling.
Is This a Roomis at the Vineyard Theatre through November 10.
