True Colors' 'Colored Museum' revisits Mama on the Couch
"The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play" exhibit from the play 'The Colored Museum feels like a fresh satire.
Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre doesn't just celebrate the African-American theatrical canon, but shows a willingness to tweak it with its latest production of The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe. Wolfe's satire of African-American culture is already turning into something of a museum piece, but can still elicit a lot of laughs as it roasts some sacred cows. The vignette "The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play," a spoof of socially-conscious African-American theater, feels like a fresh parody of the likes of Kenny Leon's A Raisin in the Sun and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls. "His brow is heavy — from 300 years of oppression."
Jasmine Guy directs Amber Iman, Ali Carter, Enoch King, Danielle Deadwyler and Je Nie Fleming in True Colors' The Colored Museum, running March 25-April 17. Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur. www.truecolorstheatre.org