The play, by Nathan Louis Jackson, is a warm, emotionally stirring portrait of an African-American family set in a down-at-the heels Kansas City neighborhood.
“Broke-ology is the study of being broke,” and it’s how Ennis, who has been caring for his ailing father, describes the situation to his younger brother Malcolm, who is back home for a while and helping out. However, Malcolm has a job offer from the University of Connecticut and wants to accept it. Tensions rise and tempers flare but the family’s love prevails.
“Jackson's characters love and laugh, dance and argue in a way that honors their bittersweet survival. Tender emotions are much harder to achieve onstage than pathological ones; it's a pleasure to see goodness, not hate, dissected." — The New Yorker.
Bare Bones Staged Reading: Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson
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David June 19, 2013 at 05:51 am
It's even more unfortunate that San Leandro hasn't learned the lesson that concentrating poverty…Read More into housing projects leads to concentrations of crime. A lesson *every other* major city in America has learned over the past 50 years of failed urban policies.
Rob Rich June 19, 2013 at 06:36 am
David, you speak out of both sides of your mouth. Sometimes you complain our future neighbors at The…Read More Crossings will be too affluent and undeserving. Now it's concentrating poverty. Frankly the market does an amazing job of concentrating poverty. Nonprofits like Bridge & Mercy are helping to address that problem. That is something our neighboring communities have learned throughout these nonprofits' 30 year history.
David June 19, 2013 at 07:26 am
Rob, let me spell it out for you yet again. 1) The Crossings are being sold to SL by folks like you…Read More and the politicians as "workforce" housing for those poor souls who have a job but supposedly can't afford housing. That's a straight up lie. As I've pointed out, the income levels required for taxpayer-subsidized housing at Bridge could easily afford housing in SL. Therefore, this leads to my point #2: The people who *will* live there are going to be much lower in income. As we have witnessed in *every other* city's failed urban policies, such concentrations of poverty lead to increased local crime.
Rowena Peñalba June 18, 2013 at 11:27 pm
It's slightly used but I don't remember where I bought it from. I don't see any brand name on it. I…Read More just priced it based on the lowest one available on Amazon. If you're interested, make me an offer. Maybe we can agree on it. Thanks for your inquiry.
Richard Eisenman June 14, 2013 at 11:17 am
I'm not a very regular viewer. Could you be a bit more specific about what changed recently (pluses…Read More and minuses)? Thanks.
Molly Rosen June 14, 2013 at 04:36 pm
One of the best operas ever. I hope to see it. How excited for OOT and San Leandro!
CoachRick Laforet June 10, 2013 at 04:53 pm
Forgot to mention that there's more at www.MonarchBayGC.com
Susan Reisz June 10, 2013 at 07:29 pm
Can you reprint this several times prior to June 27. I don't want people to forget about it? Thanks
Michael Moore June 2, 2013 at 06:02 pm
Leah, do you have the authorization from Disney for the use of the copyrighted Dumbo character you…Read More use for your blog? I thought that the policy of Patch was to deny access to non-authorized materials such as this.