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Rodney Chaise Williams and James Banks (l to r) as Zooman and Victor Tate in the Karamu production of Zooman and the Sign.

by Barry Daniels

The Cleveland Public Theatre's current production is a powerful and shocking drama by Tracey Letts, Killer Joe, which deals with the problem of masculine violence. The press release warns that the play contains nudity, graphic language and violence towards women. Because of the harsh nature of the presentation, director James Levin and his cast and crew will be available for audience discussions after each performance. Killer Joe continues through May 21, Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 7 pm. Tickets are $10, $6 (students and seniors), and $3 (Thursdays). For reservations telephone 631-2727.

The Cleveland Public Theatre will present a production of Yukio Mishima's The Lady Aoi, directed by Raymond Bobgan, in its downstage space on May 12 and 13 at 11 pm. Tickets are $10 and $6.

At Dobama Theatre, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good continues through May 15. The play is both intellectually exciting and intensely dramatic in its depiction of the "civilizing" effect rehearsing a play has on a group of British convicts who have been shipped to Australia in 1788. Wertenbaker combines enlightenment philosophy with a critique of colonialist attitudes and brings to life the dramatic reality of the situation of the convicts. Her kaleidoscopic series of scenes is alternately poetic, deeply moving, or richly comic. It is an ambitious play for a small theater to produce. Dorothy Silver's staging gets off to a slow start: the actors force their playing of the brutish nature of the convicts, and the obviously low-budget period costumes are a distraction. Gradually, however, the power of the drama takes over and the production commands our attention. I especially liked David Hoffman's

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The Karamu Performing Arts Theatre production of Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign continues through May 15. Although written in 1980, the play, about the effect of the murder of a 12 year old girl on her family and neighborhood, is unfortunately still timely. Although tightly written and often moving, Fuller's drama tends to be repetitious and static. The acting is generally good and the situation is often compelling. Unfortunately Theresa Dixon in the central role of Rachel Tate, the victim's mother, alternates between angry outbursts and stagey weeping. She gives an unconvincing performance that nearly sinks this otherwise commendable production. Two performances are outstanding. Robert J. Williams as Reuben Tate, the victim's father believably portrays the variety and complexity of the character's grief. He has displayed a remarkable range this season in Distant Fires, America Hurrah, and Miss Evers' Boys. Rodney Chase Williams, who was so fine in both Distant Fires and Miss Evers' Boys, is fascinating and repellant as the street punk, Zooman, who betrays no guilt for the murder he has committed. Performances of Zooman and the Sign are in the Arena Theatre, Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $9 and $10. For reservations telephone 795-7077.

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