I highly recommend that this play be seen by students to get the real deal of slavery and perhaps some new revelations on America's most shameful past. This is not revisionist history. The Whipping Man tears the genteel veneer off of the gracious South and reveals how history and cultures have been intertwined through trade, miscegenation, and base violence. It's an educative and riveting entertainment. (read more.…
SOURCE: Chicago Theater Beat at 10:31PM on January 27, 2013