Kill Move Paradise @ ODYSSEY THEATRE ENSEMBLE

Five years before he won his Pulitzer, James Ijames’ prophetically in-your-face earlier play cries out to us about the horrendous epidemic of brutality perpetrated against innocent and unarmed African-American men and women.This play made it clear the kind of urban poet Ijames was about to become but doesn’t have the seasoning to more cleverly finesse the message his later masterpiece possesses. Luckily, what this production does have to camouflage its rough edges is the incredibly visionary Gregg T. Daniels in the director’s chair. Read more…