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  • Hal Corley: The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip by Michelle Tyrene Johnson
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    This funny, heartfelt, remarkably agile, and finally provocatively subversive play is a genuine beauty, built on a compelling construct, a wine and book club sojourn vs time-capsuled denizens of a 1940s brothel. Marie, our richly drawn, multifaceted protagonist meets her match in Bertha, who has an August Wilsonian world-weary grace. The mix of bewilderment and curiosity as these two school one another in the tropes and threats of Jim Crow vs. 2017 is masterful. Time travel itself is the ultimate poetic metaphor, a building riff until suddenly the journey deepens, making our experience of...

    This funny, heartfelt, remarkably agile, and finally provocatively subversive play is a genuine beauty, built on a compelling construct, a wine and book club sojourn vs time-capsuled denizens of a 1940s brothel. Marie, our richly drawn, multifaceted protagonist meets her match in Bertha, who has an August Wilsonian world-weary grace. The mix of bewilderment and curiosity as these two school one another in the tropes and threats of Jim Crow vs. 2017 is masterful. Time travel itself is the ultimate poetic metaphor, a building riff until suddenly the journey deepens, making our experience of these shared worlds even fuller. Extraordinary.

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  • Donna Hoke: The Green Book Wine Club Train Trip by Michelle Tyrene Johnson
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    What a pleasure to spend time with these five wonderful women! When all we know of the past are the things we feel are best left behind, we reduce those times to labels and worst case scenarios that overshadow the moments and love that make up lives. With humor and poignancy, THE GREEN BOOK... reminds us that there's always a little something sacrificed for progress, a bit of cognitive dissonance in keeping with a play about time travel.

    What a pleasure to spend time with these five wonderful women! When all we know of the past are the things we feel are best left behind, we reduce those times to labels and worst case scenarios that overshadow the moments and love that make up lives. With humor and poignancy, THE GREEN BOOK... reminds us that there's always a little something sacrificed for progress, a bit of cognitive dissonance in keeping with a play about time travel.

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