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...vivid memory and the fear of last year's riots, Oh said, would further help prevent history from repeating itself...
...American Repertory Theatre, shows a sure hand in keeping up the play's pace and controlling the sometimes frenetic energy. Although some comic moments blow by too quickly to appreciate, the timing is generally impressive and the endless entrances and exits are surprisingly well-synchronized. Also impressive is the vivid red, green and black set, designed by Derek McLane, which allows the cast to revolve in a whirlwind of pointless but comical activity...
...BOTTOM LINE: Vivid vignettes of racial and sexual violence among the urban poor announce the arrival of a gifted writer...
...matter how determined not to condescend, artists and spectators all but inevitably feel an anthropological distance from their subjects. This holds especially true in the theater, a medium the underclass is apt to avoid as alien and unaffordable. Certainly, few playgoers at Aven'U Boys, a violent and vivid series of vignettes set in Brooklyn, New York, that debuted off-Broadway last week, appear to share the despondent, nihilistic subliteracy of the title trio of Italian Americans in their late teens (played, with terrifying conviction, by actors looking a decade older...
THEATER A vivid, visceral playwright debuts in Aven'U Boys...