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GHQWV YRWHG \HV WR WREDFFR XVH SXV $OPRVW YRWHUV VDLG WKH\ JURXSV VXFK DV FDPSV KLJK VFKRROV 7KH%RDUGRI (OHFWLRQVVDZ Assistant Director for Leadership RQFDPSXVEHLQJDSUREOHPWKDW ZRXOGQRWVXSSRUWWKLVDFWLRQ 6RFFHUFOXEVHWFµ 2 Xavier Newswire Edited by: Sara Ringenbach November 2, 2016 Arts&Entertainment [email protected] ‘Jitney’ captures the Black experience Photo courtesy of Mikki Schaffner Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s Jitney opened at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park on Oct. 15 with stars Michael Kevin Darnall (left), Shane Taylor (center) and Dion Graham (right). BY TAYLOR ZACHARY culturally robust community on with the thoughtfulness and seldom challenged. macy, which in turn enhances our BY ISABEL DEMARCO Staff Writer Guest Writer Oct. 15 and honors the work of poise only a Black woman could Additionally, the quick wit capacity to accept the strikingly Five Black men held back director Thomas Douglas. offer. All the while her boyfriend and folly of Fielding, played ef- simple, but often neglected, hu- tears, centering themselves The show is broken into two Youngblood, played by Michael fortlessly by Doug Brown, sheds manity of Blackness. around a question all too familiar acts, centered around both the 'DUQDOOVWUXJJOHVWRÀQGKLPVHOI light onto processes of self-med- What Jitney captures, ultimate- to the Black-American experi- seemingly inevitable destruction as a veteran in a United States era ication and the battle between ly, to great effect, is a re-claiming ence: what now? of the jitney shop and the broken that was paradoxical for Black sobriety and sorrow. In a silently of the Black experience as an ex- A product of the literary ge- relationships among the shop soldiers returning from Vietnam. powerful moment, he shares a perience that is fully human. This nius of August Wilson, Jitney is owner Becker and his adult son. <RXQJEORRG ÀQGV FRPIRUW LQ much-needed drink with Booster, is a human experience that does DVWRU\WKDWIROORZVÀYH$IULFDQ The casting here is superb as the the shared war stories of an el- Becker’s son, who is a returning not transcend race, nor does it BY JASON SMITH American adult males as they audience comes to learn, with in- der, Philmore, played by Kenneth citizen after evading the death try to, but re-centers Blackness as Staff Writer struggle to maintain a jitney car timacy, the character’s beautiful Early, who is a quiet source of penalty and serving 20 years in integral to understanding the full- service station. The play is set in struggle of resistance, resilience wisdom throughout the play. prison. ness of humanity. 1977 Pittsburgh in a Black neigh- and reconciliation. Turnbo, played with striking At the heart of the play is a Jitney will run until Nov. 12. borhood plagued by the conse- The eloquent simplicity of effect by Dion Graham, brings tenderness that is rarely seen in Tickets range from $20 - $75 per quences of displacement,