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...report luridly describes the "humanity" of prison: strip searches, isolated confinement, beating by inmates and guards, 23-hour lock-downs, inaccessible medical care, filth and all the other imaginable physical and psychological horrors of a steel cage full of angry felons and fearful guards...
...story is simple; there is no time for plot build-up. Daryl Downs (Pamela D. Meekins) is an exotic art dealer who happens to be black and who wants to buy a painting from Steel (Patrick Sylvain). Steel is an artist from Trinidad who repeatedly refers to his work as "his soul," implying a symbolic tie to his African heritage. When Steel refuses to "sell his soul away" for money, intra-racial conflict ensues between those espousing more practical and more philosophical responsess to prejudice...
When Daryl and Steel argue, we are left with a sense of urgency and stagnation, fostered by the eloquence of both sides. It is as if we are watching an action play, only here the actions are words which nevertheless leave us entirely involved...
Sylvain, respectable and assured through out, fills Steel with an emotional charge that is entirely appropriate. When he declares that New York is a great place only for those who live "above it" in high-rises and office buildings, his voice and mannerisms speak a bitterness that is an thoughtful as it is sad. Sylvain's native accent pits him strongly against the upper class world that surrounds him, from the distinct professionalism of Daryl to the portrait of a former Winthrop House master on the back wall. And Matthew Gelbert, who has the important role of a white English...
...Igloo faithful that had already purchased full-price tickets are crying foul, and deservedly so. But shame on the citizens of the Steel City, who in the past routinely left empty seats for the good postseason baseball action of their Pirates. And now, for the winners of two of the last three Stanley Cups...pass me a Rolling Rock while I stop to ponder this...