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...disparate fragments of a demented Negro girl. From Robert Allen's set we immediately get the theme of black against white (even without the huge black ravens which the script suggests should fly about the set during the first scene). Without surprise, we learn that Sarah (Barbara Ann Teer) had a white mother and a black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that her agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen out in clumps). The intricacies of this identity crisis are represented by her four selves: Patrice Lumumba, Jesus, Queen Victoria...