At any given moment the performers sing, dance, jump rope, fight, simulate both a drag routine and a quiz show, and engage in every form of mockery imaginable.
From left, Cindy Gold, Celeste M. Cooper and Sydney Charles in Steppenwolf Theatre’s “The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington” by James Ijames.
Of course the verdict in this “spectacularly lamentable trial” is “guilty as charged” — a stinging indictment of a country that supported slavery at the very same time it was fighting for its freedom. That fact is in many ways the realistic backbone of the production. But what drives the show’s “spectacular” elements are the sardonic, rip-roaring and rebellious antics of Martha’s other enslaved people who are uniformly played with great show-biz exuberance by Sydney Charles, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Celeste M. Cooper, Victor Musoni and Donovan Session.
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