Yellowman at Rep Stage - Horowitz Center

Yellowman

Rep Stage - Horowitz Center
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia

In this poetic and compelling Pulitzer-nominated story, two childhood friends struggle with identity and love amidst issues of race, class, and family loyalties in the complex and idiosyncratic Gullah community in the South Carolina lowcountry.

Thru - Feb 26, 2012

Wednesdays: 7:00pm

Thursdays: 7:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 6:30pm

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 2 hours 5 mins with no intermission

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Yellowman Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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Baltimore Sun - Recommended

"... "Yellowman" has just two actors, though each plays several roles: Alma, portrayed with great naturalness by Kelly Renee Armstrong, is poor, plus-sized and dark-complexioned. Though her mother teaches the girl to loathe herself for being a "fat, black ugly t'ing," that message does battle with the girl's innate optimism."

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- Mary Carole McCauley

Afro - Recommended

Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman is a story of black-on-black bigotry, parental abuse, internalized self-loathing, and alcoholism. In other words, just another fun night at the theatre.

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- Steve McKnight

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

"...Rep Stage presents Yellowman, an intensely powerful love story between two childhood friends from a Gullah community in South Carolina Lowcountry, written by Dael Orlandersmith. Kasi Campbell directs this highly emotional production, where the characters must struggle through a world of hate that stems from race, class, and social prejudice."

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- Julia Exline

ExploreHoward - Recommended

"... For all its thematic integrity, there are times when Orlandersmith's socially pointed, two-character drama seems on the verge of becoming overly didactic and static. Bear with her play's message-on-the-sleeve passages, however, because its dramatic substance comes across in the most crucial scenes."

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- Mike Giuliano

BroadwayWorld - Recommended

"... Alma begins a long relationship when she was very young with Eugene (played by the talented Jon Hudson Odom), a light-skinned boy who lived in the "city", was well-off, and also had a drunken but married light-skinned mother, and a father who was dark-skinned."

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- Charles Shubow

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Afro - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Highly Recommended

ExploreHoward - Recommended

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