CURTAIN CALL: An attempt to stave off adulthood

This week's indie-theater roundup includes South Camden Theatre Co.'s Tennessee's Final Curtain Call, Plays and Players' August Wilson's Joe Turner Come and Gone and The Playdaters, performed by Matchbox Theatre Project.

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CURTAIN CALL: An attempt to stave off adulthood

POSTED: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 1:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

Popular demand caused Plays & Players to add two more performances of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. So if you’ve been straggling for the last month, get off your ass.

The second chapter of Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, Joe Turner focuses on a group of strangers cooped up in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in the midst of the Northern Migration. The arrival of former slave Herald Loomis (Kash Goins), who is searching for his wife after seven years on a Tennessee chain gang, causes the house’s other residents to contemplate their shifting roles in a post-slavery society. True to form, Wilson situates African-American history at the intersection between the quotidian and the spectacular. The result is a realistic depiction of how black identity is manifested in everyday life.

Feb. 10 and 11, $25, Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, 215-735-0630, playsandplayers.org.

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