The House That Will Not Stand, Tricycle Theatre
Bigger is better in the Tricycle's latest piece of reclaimed black history. African-American writer Marcus Gardley's stimulating play, which transports Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba to 1836 New Orleans and a significant shift in the evolving racial hierarchy, begins slowly and timidly, reliant on exposition and sitcom laughs. Yet once he and Indhu Rubasingham embrace its operatic qualities, this memorably evocat…