A white woman eating an apple walks into a subway car and sits near a Black man. She alternatively taunts and flirts with him and offers him one apple, then another. By the end of their conversation, the Black man is dead. Two recent digital productions of Baraka’s famous play, one by the Seeing Place Theater and a Play-PerView reunion reading of the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast, emphasized different aspects of the biblical story. One focused on the apple itself — the moment of temptation — while the other more subtly broke down the moments after those first bites, when Adam gains knowledge and understands the cost of it all.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2020 19:20 UTC