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...trenchant lyrics, on faithless girlfriends and confused, desperate men, but with a venom unfelt on the band's two previous albums. The song titles alone--for example, "Out That Door," "What's My Scene," "I Was the One," "Hell for Leather," and "In the Middle of the Land"--spell out these feelings...
Ntozake Shange's Spell 7, written in 1980, is like Hollywood Shuffle without the comedy and without a plot. The Mather House production has some powerful moments and excellent performances, and its political message is compelling. But sometime around the middle of the second, and last act, the performance runs out of steam...
...Spell 7 tries to be too much. It not only wants to be political and poetic, but entertaining as well. That the Mather House production fails to be all three is not surprising. Director Benston & crew do succeed, though, in creating a compelling statement about the the latent racism that perpetuates stereotypes and keeps Black actors in condescending Black roles...
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