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‘Trouble in Mind’ Review: A Timely Broadway Play Elevated by a Stellar Cast

19.11.2021 - 05:15

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Ayanna Prescod Alice Childress’ timely play “Trouble in Mind” is finally getting its Broadway debut — after a 65-year wait.

The late playwright’s first full-length work, about discrimination and imbalanced power dynamics in the theater industry, was produced Off Broadway in 1955 with the plan of moving it to Broadway in 1957.

However, Childress refused to bow to the demands of producers who urged her to “tone down” the play’s powerful conclusion.It’s a good thing she didn’t.

Without the last 20 minutes of this show, “Trouble in Mind” would be a draggy play about Black people working in a theater industry that offers them only roles as caricatures, Uncle Toms and yes-ma’amers.

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