Last season, Manhattan's Negro Ensemble Company wallowed in polemics. Now the company has made a brave new start with the most impressive drama it has yet staged. The Sty of the Blind Pig by Philip Hayes Dean is steeped in the humor, the passion, and the frustration of black life. It is eloquent, powerful, moving and beautiful.
This is a family play, though it only contains the fragment of a family: a mother, her daughter and the mother's brother, who drops in from time to time. The mother, Weedy (Clarice Taylor), is both possessive and plaintive, one of those women who suck...
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