The comedic action of I Am Delivered’t takes place outside of a Black evangelical, urban church called New Jerusalem. The set, designed by Jason Ardizzone-West, locates the characters between the parking lot of this church and its entrance, with its visible, metal grating-covered doors upstage. The set design is a deceptively simple use of visual storytelling, as much of the unit set is just the outer brick wall of the church, painted yellow, with vines growing unchecked, and nothing else in the playing space but some folding chairs. The spareness of the stage furniture is appropriate for this outside location, but it also echoes the bluntness of the play’s conversation. The view the audience gets of the church itself—no iconography, no clear windows allowing glimpses inside—represents the sense of cold alienation the main characters feel. It is a hard backdrop for soft things, and this paradoxical tension carries from our...
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October 28 2024
I Am Delivered’t
I Am Delivered’t
. By Jonathan Norton. Directed by Robert Barry Fleming. Produced in association with Dallas Theater Center / Actors Theatre of Louisville
. Pamela Brown Auditorium, Louisville, Kentucky
, March
13–24
, 2024
Brian Granger
Brian Granger
Ohio Wesleyan University
BRIAN GRANGER is a musical theatre book writer/librettist, playwright, theatre scholar, songwriter, and actor/director whose works are an ongoing exploration of how we treat one another across lines of race, gender, and class. His academic interests include North American ethnic playwrights and Africana musicals on Broadway. He holds a PhD from the University of California–Santa Barbara. Granger’s book is Parker, Lopez, and Stone’s The Book of Mormon, a critical but nonspecialist-friendly analysis of the hit Broadway musical (Routledge, 2019).
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Ecumenica (2024) 17 (2): 193–198.
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Brian Granger; I Am Delivered’t. Ecumenica 28 October 2024; 17 (2): 193–198. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.17.2.0193
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