10/09/2015
"In light of the ‘Black Lives Matter” movement, “Cell” is asking whose lives matter and digging deeper, past the scars of segregation and Jim Crow into the tangled roots of slavery, detention and abuse. Underneath Rene’s bravado, Cerise’s struggle with addictions and Gwen’s confusion about how she should feel are the echoes of the push me, pull you counterpoint of racial politics and the question of just who is American. Medley is dredging up the issue of minorities made to do the grunt work of institutions in exchange for some access to the American Dream. It is Brown and Black Americans being turned on other Brown and Black people in a desperate search for job security and a way out of poverty. In a moment of clarity, Rene hits it right on the head- “we should not do the work of what was done to us.”'
Sometimes A Soul Just Needs To Breathe: A Review of Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company’s “Cell” Article by Rebecca Romani Every society has its invisible people, its ghosts just struggling to survive...
