Solo Show 'Tar Baby' Proves Both Entertaining and Startling
Desiree Burch’s solo show “Tar Baby” is a rare thing: a work about blackness intended, at least nominally, for white people. It’s a pointed decision that’s at odds with most plays about race, which leave the audience’s ethnic identity ambiguous, a nebulous, nonracial slurry. It’s easier to tell stories cocooned in the safeness of sameness. Burch begins “Tar Baby,”…