“Bootycandy”: My FT Review
The Financial Times has posted my review of Robert O’Hara‘s “Bootycandy,” off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. Bottom line: ‘Throughout much of this production, designed with bright-hued flair and turntable glee by Clint Ramos, Bootycandy provides perspectives from a black, gay vantage, with hints of Richard Pryor. In the tradition of George C Wolfe’s 1986 spectacle, The Colored Museum, O’Hara might have had in mind the response of the writer James Baldwin 50 years ago to the question, “Did being poor, black, and gay make you feel disadvantaged?†“On the contrary,†he replied, “I thought I had hit the jackpot. It was so outrageous, you had to find a way to use it.‒
