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March 27, 2022

It makes sense then that “Confederates,” which opened on Sunday at the Pershing Square Signature Theater, feels like an elegant experiment, thoughtful and put-together but not quite realizing its full potential.

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March 27, 2022

As Confederates builds to a worthy climax, Morisseau offers an insightful portrait of Black people striving, both within and beyond their own moments, toward a great sense of union.

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March 27, 2022

Before giving Malik that A-plus, Sandra criticizes his paper, saying, “I think you can draw more concise lines between corporate America and the plantation.” Morisseau has no such problem drawing those lines. She gets the job done in record time.

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March 27, 2022

Time bends, and we do not flinch. The play’s big-swing departures from the real, asserted so confidently, are never confusing.

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March 27, 2022

A master at weaving together personal, historical, and social narratives, Morriseau here delivers her most ambitious, possibly most galvanizing, work yet: a comparative study between a Black woman professor at a respectable university, and the slave to whom she is equated in a campus hate incident.

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March 27, 2022

It’s devastating to witness a play and recognize how close to home it all hits. Each one of us, whether in the thick of being a target of prejudice and oppression, or being an ally to those in need, each carry an impossible task, and we carry on, holding onto a glimmer of hope at the bottom of Pandora’s box.

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