This play took itself seriously then and takes itself seriously now, and even though there have been changes in the South since Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, there have not been enough of them.
It is only the tone of the play that is. There is something too blatant about the story of Lizzie McKay Kimberly Chase , the New York prostie who rolls into a Southern town and hooks up with a good-looking guy named Fred Macaulay Bruton , only to find out that all he wants is to get Lizzie to sign a paper incriminating a black man William Barker wrongly accused of trying to rape her.
The piece today ends up being a transparent attack on the American system of injustice by a writer whose Communist leanings made him predictably anti-American. Had the play been dramaturgically stronger, one might be more willing to forgive its wrong-headed inspiration. But back to the original company statement: Should we care more about French theater in Los Angeles? Of course we should, but it needs to be fresher than this.
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