Les Blancs, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, is currently performed at Oakland Theater Project with an eight-member cast. The cast embodies multiple roles and engages deeply with the characters. The story revolves around a white writer visiting a medical clinic in a fictional African nation during colonial decline and a son returning for his father’s funeral. The production benefits from fast-paced dialogue and emotionally charged content, highlighted by projections. Additionally, into the Breeches depicts women taking over male roles in a Shakespearean production during WWII, directed to enhance comedic elements.
In her prologue to the play, Hansberry describes a mysterious African woman as majestic and motionless Black-skinned and imposing, cheeks painted for war.
The story follows a white writer visiting a small medical clinic in the waning colonial days of a fictional African nation, and a son returning home from England for his father's funeral.
The dialogue is often fast paced with charged emotional content enhanced by Dilpreet Kanand's projections.
In Pt. Richmond, Masquer's Playhouse returns to World War II with George Brant's comedic Into the Breeches, where mostly inexperienced women are cast in male roles.
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