The Shipment

A Black Identity Politics show that combs through the images of African-Americans that dominate the media. Wielding sharp, offbeat humor, it points up the clichés, distortions and absurdities, turning the wearily familiar – a foul-mouthed stand-up comic, a drug dealer, a would-be rapper – into loopy, arch cartoons. “Young Jean Lee makes theatre out of the ways the culture affects her imagination. While she shows how Asian women, blacks, and gays take on societal negativity, she’s never didactic about it. She’s too wise, and has too much of a sense of humor to preach about what others have no way of feeling: difference.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker

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