Things of Dry Hours
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 8, 2009
Closed Jun 28, 2009
Opened Jun 8, 2009
Closed Jun 28, 2009
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Naomi Wallace's Things of Dry Hours is set in Depression-era Alabama, and tells the story of Tice Hogan, an African American out-of-work Sunday school teacher and member of the Communist Party, and his daughter Cali whose lives get turned upside down when they take-in a mysterious white factory worker on the run.
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It is possible that the title Naomi Wallace has chosen for her latest play, Things of Dry Hours, now at New York Theater Workshop, might refer to the series of charged episodes in which African-American, Bible-reading, Community-party-member Tice Hogan (Delroy Lindo), his tough-minded, widowed daughter Cali (Roslyn Ruff), and youngish, white interloper Corbin Teel (Garret Dillahunt) participate contentiously and at length.
But what an observer unfamiliar with the elusive phrase (never explained by Wallace) is more likely to conclude by the time this two-and-a-half-hour, two-act play draws to a close is that the title is the first tip-off to the poetic pretension in which playwright Wallace[...]