Theater: Metropolitan Playhouse / 220 East Fourth Street, New York, NY, 10009
Brett Charles, a decorated officer, returns to his childhood home from WW II transformed by his sacrifice, but that home is not ready to catch up. Charles is the African-American son of a housekeeper, returning to the Deep Southern mansion where he was raised: that of long-time US Senator Ellsworth Langdon. An honorable soldier's new ambitions, the early whispers of Civil Rights reform, and the blossoming of love in a most unexpected quarter are the sparks in a tinderbox just waiting to take fire.
March 11, 2012: Moonlight and magnolias, a Southerner says in “Deep Are the Roots,” are “our oldest clichés.” In this play by Arnaud d’Usseau and James Gow they’re part of the sweet seductions of a place where the genteel and brutal exist side by side, sometimes in the same person.
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