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The M Ensemble, the nation’s oldest black theater company, produces many biopics like A Woman Called Truth and knows how to choose the good ones. Like the best of them, Truth never tries contorting itself into a neat dramatic arc; it shows Sojourner’s life as the chaotic, tragicomic jumble that most lives are. A moment of supreme triumph — Truth‘s recovery of a son who was sent as a gift from free New York to the slave-holding South — is followed matter-of-factly by the loss of that same son, just a few years later, when he disappears off a whaling ship and is never heard from again.
A Woman Called Truth is utterly remarkable — and powerful enough to render the visage’s incongruities meaningless.
Feb. 12-March 1, 2009
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