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So I play the character Juicy. Juicy is a kind of Hamlet. He is a young, queer, college
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kid that is trying to figure out what his path in life is and he gets tasked with avenging
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his father's death in a way where he isn't fully on board. He's not fully committed to
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the idea of this. He's not really committed to the idea of anything. He's questioning
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everything and in that investigating of himself and the people around him and the world around
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him, he sort of finds something bigger. Okay, so I play Opal and I call her the bull in the china shop because she is this queer
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girl who's 19 years old in the south and she is just waiting to just break out. So she's
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a little abrasive, she's a little prickly, but then she has these moments with Juicy
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who is her best friend and you see her open up. So I think it's really nice to see frustrated
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teenagerhood and that's why I love her. Well I play Rev Pap and he is the bad guy in the play. Both of them are just total badasses
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and there's nothing better than playing a bad ass in the theater, you know, because
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somebody's got to do it, Rich, and so it's me, it's time. I play Teo. He's the cousin to Juicy. He's the high cousin who has a lot of jokes and
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does his own thing, but he's full of these musings that, I don't know, really help the
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family grow out of their trauma and come into their higher selves
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I play Rabby and she's the kind of judgmental church woman and what I love about her is
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that she speaks for all the aunties out there that can identify with me, so I love it
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Oh gosh, Tidra, which is, she's kind of like a Gertrude and she's wild, fun-loving, and complicated
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What's made this so special for you with working on this? The character in particular that I'm playing, Larry, who is black, queer, from the South
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just like I am, representation is important. The fact that I get to represent this character
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on stage and represent so many other black, queer boys that are coming behind me, I mean
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I couldn't ask for anything better. It means a lot. It really does
