If the N-word makes you wince, a warning: You'll be recoiling constantly during Katori Hall's "Hurt Village," which opened Monday night in the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the new Signature Center . The epithet gets slung more than 200 times over 2 3/4 hours in this gritty but familiar portrait of an urban black family trapped by poverty.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM on February 27, 2012