- OTHER MEDIA
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- Review in the SF Bay Guardian March 31, 2010 (Robert Avila)
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- In this inspired poetical-historical counter-narrative from Bay Area
playwright Marcus Gardley, Greek mythology, African American folklore,
personal family history, and Christian theology are all drawn irresistibly
along in a great sweep of wild and incisive humor, passion, pathos and
rousing gospel music as buoyant and wide as the Mississippi — or rather
Miss Sippi (the impressive Nicole C. Julien), personification of the mighty
and flighty river. The Cutting Ball–Playwrights Foundation coproduction,
lovingly directed by Amy Mueller, sports exquisite design touches from
Cutting Ball regulars like Michael Locher, whose gorgeous plank-wood set
serves as the ideal platform for a work both magnificently simple and eloquently
evocative
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