Aleshea Harris’ revenge play gets compelling production by Oakland Theater Project.
Revenge stories are a time-honored subgenre in film, but they’re less common in theater, at least since the heyday of the revenge tragedy in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Theirs is an epic quest made compellingly intimate in the Oakland Theater Project staging directed by co-founder and co-artistic director William Hodgson, who’s also starring in Aurora Theatre Company’s current production of “Cyrano.” Called “the rough one that’s still got some pretty to her,” Jamella Cross’ Racine is plucky and blithely bloodthirsty. Her scars most prominent on her arms, ’Cine is as irrepressibly upbeat and energetic as ’Naia is relentlessly gloomy and sluggish.
The father has a new pair of spoiled teenage twins, equipped by costume designer Arielle Powell in comically matching green and white outfits. Devin Cunningham’s Riley is sarcastic and arugula-loving, and Anthony Rollins-Mullens’ giddy Scotch writes bad poetry with puppy-dog enthusiasm. Cunningham also plays a haughty, drunken lawyer, and Rollins-Mullens is chillingly calm and smooth as the swaggering, cowboy-hatted object of their quest.
Hodgson’s deft staging leans into that blend of the down-to-earth and the lyrical. The audience is right up against the action in Oakland Theater Project’s cozy performance space around back of FLAX art & design in downtown Oakland.
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