Yellowman: and My Red Hand, My Black Hand

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These two raucously acclaimed new plays by Dael Orlandersmith, whom The New York Times has known as “an otherworldly messenger, in all probability the sorcerer’s apprentice, or a heaven-sent angel with the devil in her,” confirm her reputation as some of the in point of fact unique voices in latest American drama.

In Yellowman, a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, Alma and Eugene have known each and every other since they were babies. As their friendship blossoms into love, Alma struggles to free herself from her mother’s poverty and alcoholism, whilst Eugene will have to contend with the legacy of being “yellow”—lighter-skinned than his brutal and unforgiving father. In My Red Hand, My Black Hand, a young woman explores her heritage as the kid of a blues-loving Native American man and a black sharecropper’s daughter from Virginia. Alternately joyous and harrowing, both plays are powerful examinations of the racial tensions that fracture communities and individual lives.

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