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In the Red and Brown Water

A play and a production that linger long after the final curtain. Oya is, at the same time, a young athlete who loses a scholarship, a Yoruban folk figure, and a barren woman linked with Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma. She is many stories at once. And the UCSD production, smartly directed by Gregory Wallace, re-creates playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's "distant present" with a chorus that breaks into songs, robust rhythms, even a rap number, in the process joining the bare bones story of a young woman from the projects with myth, legend, and Greek tragedy.

• When: Ongoing until Saturday, December 1, 2012
  • Fridays, 8pm
  • Saturdays, 8pm
• Where: UCSD: University of California San Diego

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