Pittsburgh in the Round: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
The patriarch of a white (usually Southern) family dies. This tragic inevitability sets his family (primarily his adult children) on a pilgrimage to the family estate to root through and divide the assets physically and financially.
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I wish I had time in my schedule to go see this production before it closes on Sunday. I like how this review opens setting the base level stage that playwright Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins creates but takes further. I think that it works really well to take this very vanilla topic of family dealing with loss and provoke the audience to really think. Theatre, in my mind, should always leave an audience thinking whether it be about their own life experiences, how they can change their outlook on the world, or something as complex of generational racism. Theatre is powerful and this playwright has consistently shown that he knows how to catch an audience and make them think. I like how this article clarifies that the title of the play “Appropriate” is the verb rather than the adjective of the homonym. This distinction made the meaning of the production make a lot more sense in my head.
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