HANG MAN | Stacy Osei-Kuffour
The Gift Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE
set | Arnel Sancianco
lights | Mike Durst
costumes | Alarie Hammock
sound | Steven Ptacek
violence & intimacy | Rachel Flesher
photos: Claire Demos
“Hang Man is bleak…absurd…challenging, overtly lyrical and propelled by the language of the earth, the soil, the wet dirt. It is a work that deals with the intersection of racism and self-loathing, not to mention racism and sexuality…..[T]
he performances reflect deep dives into characters whose actions both reflect and belie their traumatized inner complexity, and malevolence.
” -Chicago Tribune
“…takes off like a house afire and really never lets go until the very end. 85 jam-packed minutes can barely contain the various aspects of the drama, but an intensely and intimately controlled script and perfectly projected personalities take the audience on an inexorable and uncomfortable plummet toward realization and denouement.” -Splash Magazine
“…directed fluidly and steadily by Jess McLeod…” -Chicago Sun-Times
