Horsedreams and Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men
Dael Orlandersmith's poetic two-hander Yellowman was Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, after she spent many years as a solo performer (touring with, among other performance work, the Nuyorican Poets Café).  Her work powerfully describes an American underclass, people marginalized by race, class, and often, addiction.  The lives she narrates are often lived [...]