My Occasion of Sin
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 21, 2012
Closed Apr 15, 2012
Opened Mar 21, 2012
Closed Apr 15, 2012
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Inspired by true events that led to one of the worst race riots in the author's birthplace of Omaha, Nebraska, My Occasion of Sin is set in a segregated city in 1969.
Two men from very different backgrounds: Luigi, an African American jazz drummer and George, a white music store owner who specializes in the accordion, are thrown together by fate, finding common ground in their love of music. At the same time, Mary Margaret and Vivian, two young girls from opposite sides of the segregated city, each drink in the new jazz scene for reasons of their own.
Music seems to unite and uplift everyone around … at first. Soon "occasions of sin" - where fear, mistrust and racism fester - are inescapable. Violence erupts, changing everyone's lives forever.
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Monica Bauer's My Occasion of Sin, now at Urban Stages, is not bad as a first draft of a play, showing off the author's passion for music as well as for the racial politics of her native Omaha, where she lived through tumultuous events nearly 45 years ago.
But too often she imposes a debate play onto characters that haven't been properly developed, resulting in scenes laced with arguments that come out of nowhere, and voiced by characters who speak the language of stereotypes. The final product, directed here by Frances Hill, never seems blended into an organic whole.
Some of the actors are better than others at rising above their material. Rosebud Baker, as a young, white music student n[...]