Set around a Black family’s dining room table and following a story much like that of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., this world premiere compares to “August: Osage County” and should exp…
Harry Lennix, Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and Jon Michael Hill in “Purpose” at Steppenwolf Theatre. to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire and mail fraud in connection with his misuse of $750,000 of campaign funds. Simultaneously, his wife, Sandi, was sentenced to 12 months for signing her name on false tax returns concealing said crimes. The Jacksons did not serve their time together.
It’s snowing out, so none of these six people can leave Sonny’s house. Everyone sits down to an explosive dinner, much like the most famous episode of “The Bear.” The performances all are poignant but the younger actors in this show are especially good: Hill finally has a role he has deserved for years, Arenas gets to unleash her inner Amy Morton, and the relative newcomer Bakari, playing the outsider at the homecoming of horrors, delivers a beautiful monologue about what happened to her generation during the pandemic summer of 2020, which is here thrown into a kind of counterpoint with the civil rights movement.
Harry Lennix, Alana Arenas, Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and Jon Michael Hill in"Purpose" at Steppenwolf Theatre. I was knocked out by how well “Purpose” got at one of the essential differences between 2020 and the 1960s — which is how, in 2020, a young generation of activists fused their desire for political change with a determination to radically alter their personal lives.
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