Michelle Renee Bester makes a grand entrance as the Black Ensemble Theater’s newest associate director by premiering “Grandma’s Jukebox,” a psychological family drama production she wrote and directed herself.
“Grandma’s Jukebox” is an intriguing psychological family drama that homes in on the particular fears, frustrations and needs of each of that woman’s four rather different and troubled grandchildren, and featuring periodic outbursts from the somewhat haunted jukebox that has long held a place in their grandmother’s living room. Michelle Renee Bester recently joined the Black Ensemble Theater as its newest associate director.
Jessica is the oldest of the four and was not attentive to her grandmother as she was dying. She is locked in an unhappy marriage she lacks the resources to leave. Chris , has done prison time, and is now finding it very difficult to get a job and the funding he wants in order to start a non-profit organization.
The uniformly clarion voices of the siblings ring out with great beauty and help define their various histories and personalities with a good bit of coaching from the lawyer. And while their many and varied problems are far from being immediately solved, their grandmother clearly has done all she possibly could to help them move on. And, to borrow a song title, she assures them, as best she can, that things are “Gonna Be Alright.
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