I’ve been elected.”)īut the playwright mixed such closely observed realistic details with the mythic figure of the blind prophet. (Doc’s use “chap” and other Southside slang the religious pun implied in Weedy’s “I don’t have to run for office. Dean has a good ear for dialect and sub-cultural references. The conversation has the feel of life it doesn’t seem scripted so much as recorded. Dean’s characters are well-drawn and true-to-life - always a good thing in a character-centered play.

But the story the actors told didn’t quite work for me. In Bob Semple’s fine characterization, Blind Jordan is damaged goods, revealing a lifetime of hurt in his default politeness and the tentative way that he walks, moves and reacts. The Weedy character could be a caricature (the aforementioned church lady) Small’s performance is multilayered and true to the real deal. Jones is an audience favorite as the witty, sporty, rascally Doc. Webb puts in an amazing, very physical performance, deftly conveying Alberta’s struggle to keep her passions bottled up inside. The characters invite you into their home. But, usually, the play keeps its feet on the ground. And nothing is ever the same.ĭirector Mark Clayton Southers conveys this story with low-key naturalism, occasionally breaking the realism with scenes of hallucinatory intensity, like Alberta’s harrowing flashback to the dead aviator’s funeral. She takes the next train back, and catches Alberta and Blind Jordan in the act. Weedy prefers old-time religion to this new-fangled activism. Meanwhile in Montgomery, there’s a bus boycott going on. While Weedy is away at a religious convocation in Montgomery, Alabama, he gets very close. One fine day, Blind Jordan (Ron Bobb-Semple) a wandering blues musician, knocks on the door and shakes things up.

Her brother, Doc (Alan Bomar Jones), prefers the Book of Numbers - the kind you bet on.

Alberta shares the flat with her mother, Weedy (Cassandra Small), an old-school, church lady who goes by the book - the Good Book. She’s an unexploded warhead of anger and sexual frustration, working a humiliating maid’s job, and taking prescribed pills to keep it together. Thirty-something Alberta (Kimberly Webb) is still mourning (and questioning God) over an African-American aviator’s fiery fall from God’s heaven - the man she loved but never got around to telling. The action unfolds in a tidy apartment surrounded by condemned buildings. Like Joyce’s Dubliners, they’re trapped - paralyzed by self-defeating behaviors, racial injustice and the past’s dead hand. It’s the story of four African-Americans in Chicago’s South Side in the mid-1950s, just before the civil rights movement catches fire. The Banyan Theater’s current production of Phillip Hayes Dean’s “Sty of the Blind Pig” explores a time when it seemed like change would never come. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.“A change is going to come,” as Sam Cooke once prophesied. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here.

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The blind prophet review