Review: There's More to "Mahogany Brown and the Case of the Disappearing Kid" Than Meets the (Private) Eye
Mahogany Brown and the Case of the Disappearing Kid Written by Gina Femia Directed by Janelle Zapata Castellano Presented by Step1 Theatre Project at The Tank 312 W 36 St., Manhattan, NYC July 8-11, 2019 Alisha Espinosa and Lara Fox. Photo from step1theatreproject on Instagram Looking is an important throughline in Gina Femia's genre-bending play Mahogany Brown and the Case of the Disappearing Kid , and the production fittingly makes an immediate and striking visual impression with the entrance of its first character, Jimmy Jones (Xavier Rodney). Jones enters clad in black and white from head to toe, including black gloves and white face paint. As other, similarly monochrome actors (Lara Fox, Sylas Barrett, and Rachel Weekley) emerge and mime a variety of New York City pedestrians behind him, Jones talks about the innumerable "blind" and "zombie" eyes of the city, made deliberately unseeing as people go about their business in order to shut out ...