By Ernest Kearney — Black Woman in Deep Water written and performed by Makena Hammond, under Jane Fleiss Brogger’s, direction is a pearl whose value is reflected not in its size but in its perfection.
“In the beginning,” Hammond intones, “all human beings were Africans.”
From here, with elegant economy, Hammond weaves the tragic history of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave, into an historical tapestry of ancestry and Gods.
Hammond’s performance is stunning in its power and immediacy, and a study in how brevity can sharpen a storyline’s impact to a diamond point.
Ms. Fleiss Brogger, not encumbered by excessive expression, opens the piece with a regal pacing that foreshadows the coming bestowal of nobility upon a continent and its children. Fleiss also counterpoints the beauty of Hammond’ s performance by her skillful dimming of the stage, as if wrapping a diamond in a length of darken silk, intent on blinding all by its brilliance with the unwrapping.
A PLATINUM Medal.
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Black Woman in Deep Water played the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2021, at the The Actors Company in the “Let Live Theatre.”
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The production has garnered several honors, among them
BEST SOLO SHOW AWARD
and the
HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD
The Encore Performance Black Woman in Deep Water is:
Saturday September 18 2021, 7:30 PM | 1hr
at
Actors Company at the LA Comedy Festival (LET LIVE THEATER)
916 N.Formosa Ave
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