Hurt Village
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 27, 2012
Closed Mar 18, 2012
Opened Feb 27, 2012
Closed Mar 18, 2012
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It's the end of a long summer in Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. A government Hope Grant means relocation for many of the project's residents, including Cookie, a thirteen year-old aspiring rapper, along with her mother Crank and great-grandmother Big Mama. As the family prepares to move, Cookie's father Buggy unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq. Ravaged by the war, Buggy struggles to find a position in his disintegrating community, along with a place in his daughter's wounded heart.
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As August Wilson did by repeatedly focusing on his home town of Pittsburgh, Katori Hall once again hones in on her birthplace, Memphis, in Hurt Village, her thoroughly sensational -- in a couple senses of the word -- drama just opening at the Signature Theatre's Romulus Linney Courtyard Theater.
To be more specific, she looks with fierce concentration on a downtrodden neighborhood: the ironically named Hurt Village, built for whites in the 1950s that over the intervening years transformed into a neglected black community rife with drugs and other painful manifestations of social unrest.
With instant attention-getting prowess, Hall introduces 13-year-old Cookie (the spunky Joaquina Ka[...]