LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs her husband, Samuel L. Jackson, starring opposite Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past.
Jackson savors every morsel of Wilson’s glorious language, whether he’s outlining a complicated grocery order; ruminating on the wonders of train travel and its dependability in an unreliable world; or ironing a shirt while singing an old railroad song. His characterization as Doaker — the chief living repository of memory for the fractured family, in whose home the play unfolds — is vibrantly inhabited, his every line delivered with a balance of weary experience and wry wisdom.
The actor’s association with this extraordinary play stretches back to its 1987 premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre, where he played Doaker’s impulsive motormouth nephew Boy Willie, on whom the action hinges. Jackson’s attachment to this revival is also strengthened by the involvement of his wife,
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