![Four Black women dance in a kitchen. The woman on the left is in gray pants and sweater with a light blouse. The young woman to her right is in a bathrobe and slippers, her hair wrapped in a cloth. An older woman in a long housecoat with a cane stands behind the table. The only one not dancing is seated with a book at the kitchen table on the right, looking skeptically at the others.](http://i0.wp.com/chicagoreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Brianna-Buckley-Demetra-Dee-Renee-Lockett-Syndey-Charles.-Liz-Lauren-Photo-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C190&ssl=1)
I hardly ever start reviews this way, but trust me: stop reading this and hop online to get tickets for Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s cullud wattah, now in its local premiere at Victory Gardens under Lili-Anne Brown’s direction. It’s a profound, poetic, scabrous (and beautifully acted) piece of theater that hits at so many levels that I […]
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