World Premiere 2003
Written by Shepsu Aakhu
Directed by Mignon McPherson Nance
"Aakhu traces the connections between his protagonists with feverish intensity while a handful of background characters--grifters, salesmen, train passengers--voice the frustrations father and son (J. David Shanks and Kevin Douglas) can't communicate. As directed by Mignon McPherson Nance, the two show an amazing sympathy that catapults Kiwi Black out of the realm of simple slice-of-life drama. Over the play's two electrifying hours, these characters abandon and rediscover each other constantly, alternately railing against and succumbing to the massive debt of blood relationship."
Nick Green --The Chicago Reader