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Blue Door
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Tanya Barfield’s two-man play puts Lewis, a high-achieving Black mathematics professor, in conversation with three generations of his ancestors over the course of a fevered dream or night of sleepless delusion as he wrestles with his own sense of self and cultural identity.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
In Tanya Barfield’s two-man Blue Door, a drama from 2006, a troubled Black math professor, facing a crisis in his marriage to a white wife, has a dark night of the soul. In this short but densely-packed play directed for Aurora Theatre by Darryl V. Jones, the professor struggles with his own cultural identity, with a little help from a few generations of ghostly ancestors.
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
Aurora Theatre Company