This ambitious script needs characters that the audience can feel empathy for, and more human scenes that have time to breathe.
After 25 years and some 77 productions, TimeLine Theatre is bidding farewell to its longtime North Side home, a space inside what was the Wellington United Church of Christ, now Chabad East Lakeview. In Chicago theater terms, this is a famous space, not just for all TimeLine has achieved there but for the work of such influential predecessors at the European Repertory Company.
TimeLine wanted to go out here on a new play by a Chicago writer and the work is in many ways a familiar, Steinbeck- and Woody Guthrie-esque Dust Bowl mythology with an eye on including more of the Latino experience of the era, and adding in an anti-capitalist critique of the crop-price speculation that turned into a topsoil crisis, and such other more contemporary themes as environmental stewardship and climate change.
The narrative of “Black Sunday” actually turns out to be strangely hard to follow, in this production at least, and director Helen Young’s production never fully gels when it comes to creating deep relationships between the four characters: Pa, Ma , their restless daughter Sunny , a farm worker named Jésus and Jim , a preacher.Angela Morris, Mechelle Moe and David Parkes in"Black Sunday” at TimeLine Theatre.
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