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...follows the extreme highs and shattering lows that make up the lives of its characters—woodchopper Antoine, welfare mother Grace, war veteran Tommy, to name a few—offered through the recollections of its narrator, David...
Using a character from the play as an example, Budbill explained, “ Grace is a welfare mother accused of beating her children. I would hope that after you see this play with this character, that you see this person as a person, you see ‘there’s Grace’, and she’s a human being. She has these loves and hates and desires and struggles, and she’s not a statistic. She’s a human being. She’s living a life, and it?...
...this country for centuries. It's not that blacks, when given the rare and fleeting chance, had proved themselves incompetent performers. They lit up the screen - only to be consigned to oblivion. I smile in recollection of the pretty passion that Nina Mae McKinney poured into "Hallelujah," the agitated grace Fredi Washington invested in "Imitation of Life," the power and subtlety of Paul Robeson in "The Emperor Jones." And I curse the absence of all the other sharp or magnificent characters these artists and countless others might have embodied, if only the door had been opened, if only... if only...
Then there is the case of miracles, in which I have an advantage over some, having actually seen a few myself. When I was young, my family attended religious services run by a woman named Grace, a brassy Italian-American lady whose ministry was based around her ability to (brace yourselves, my science-concentrating friends) heal people of various illnesses, ranging from chronic arthritis to cancer. She would pluck sufferers from the crowd, name their ailments, touch them—and they would fall over and lie twitching on the carpeted floor of whatever Connecticut high school auditorium her constantly...
...Holy Spirit was at work, not her, Grace always insisted; I saw no reason to doubt...