Eric Marchese with OC Theatre Guild deep dives with Yellowman‘s Director Khanisha Foster and Scenic Designer Kristin Campbell about the “universal tinge to the colors of Yellowman.“
Buy Tickets | Find out more | Read the full article“Theater’s Orange County premiere of the 2002 play, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, will prompt audiences to discuss themes that are part of the human experience.”
“‘Yellowman’ garnered widespread critical acclaim and praise for the playwright’s poetic handling of language, and Orlandersmith was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for the play, which was in the running for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.”
“Director, Khanisha Foster says she has long admired Orlandersmith’s work and that she has a particular affection for “Yellowman,” relating that as a high school student, “I used to go to the library every weekend, take out ‘Yellowman,’ find a corner, and read it again, and again, and again, and again.”
“Kristin Campbell, Chance’s scenic designer for the show, shares Foster’s enthusiasm for Orlandersmith’s work, calling her ‘an incredibly poetic and descriptive playwright’ whose words ‘make you feel the world surrounding the characters.'”
“The play will prompt you to ask whether we are on the inside what we appear to be on the outside and whether people ultimately are victims of the biases and prejudices of our parents and those around us.”
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