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...home for a holiday, each bringing with them a romantic interest. Kent’s girlfriend is Taylor (Nikkole Salter), an angry, intelligent, lower-middle-class black entomologist who wants nothing more than to fit in with the LeVays. Flip, on the other hand, brings home the white, wealthy Kimber (Rosie Benton), who works with lower-class students in a poor neighborhood. The two women inevitably clash, as do the two brothers. Maid Cheryl (Amber Iman) and patriarch Joe LeVay (Wendell W. Wright) observe the couples’ dynamics interestedly as they mask secrets of their...
...brother’s future wife—the writing is incredibly sharp and funny, complementing the actors’ flawless comedic timing. In a series of humorous exchanges at the beginning of the show, the characters discuss the arrival of the “melanin-challenged” Kimber at the LeVay house. When Taylor refers to Kimber as white, Flip fires back, “She’s Italian!”—a running joke that ends when Kent and Joe greet Kimber in excited Italian, only to find out that she does...
Moments like this, in which humor is used to highlight darker truths, abound in the play. Though the constant references to Kimber as Italian are funny, they also bring to light some disturbing realities about the race dynamic in America, as Flip believes an “ethnic” girlfriend would be more welcome in his family than a white one. One brief exchange between Flip and Joe captures this perfectly: when Joe claims that Flip sounds embarrassed about his white girlfriend, Flip simply replies, ”No, I’m just aware...
...head of the LeVay household, Wright brings a great deal of charm and multiple dimensions to his character, avoiding the stereotypes it would have been easy for him to fall into as a rich, black husband. Dirden and Benton also deliver excellent performances as Kent and Kimber, respectively, though not as outstanding as those of Iman and Wright...
...should think twice about letting personal circumstances inform their making of public policy. California's three-strikes law, for instance, didn't emerge from a reasoned debate over the wisdom of condemning three-time offenders to life in prison but from the impassioned pleas of a father whose daughter, Kimber Reynolds, was murdered by career criminals. Megan's Law (requiring released sex-offenders to publicly disclose their offense), Katie's Law (providing money to track sex offenders) and a host of similar measures share the provenance of narrow, private experience. Some of these laws may make sense, but most have...