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Oct 9, 2006 · An African-American math professor struggles with an equation he cannot solve to his satisfaction in “Blue Door,” a small but densely packed new play by Tanya Barfield that opened last...
May 2, 2024 · Michael J. Asberry, left, and James Mercer II star in Tanya Barfield’s “Blue Door” at Aurora Theatre Company. Over one fitful night a man is visited by three ghosts that terrorize him into ...
May 1, 2024 · Playwright Tanya Barfield examines the African American experience, using one talented man battling with his ancestors. Despite the central drama of “Blue Door,” moments of levity lift us. Barfield’s blue door signifies a nightmare passage that can ward off off evil and mirror the past.
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Apr 24, 2024 · Months before Blue Door (through May 19) opened at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company, playwright Tanya Barfield’s 2006 story of a Black mathematics professor disconnected from three generations of his ancestors had already rattled and rewarded its two-person cast and director Darryl V. Jones.
- Lou Fancher
Barfield's most nominated play Blue Door features a prominent African American mathematician in crisis [that] begins to lose his grip on reality, and "the ghosts of his ancestors [that] shatter the silence of an insomnia-filled night."
Apr 19, 2024 · Tanya Barfield’s two-man play puts Lewis, a high-achieving Black mathematics professor, in conversation with three generations of his ancestors over the course of a fevered dream or night of sleepless delusion as he wrestles with his own sense of self and cultural identity.
Feb 28, 2022 · Blue Door plays to March 12, 2022, presented by Perisphere Theater performing at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, 8641 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD. Tickets ($34 regular price, $28 senior, $24 student) are available online. The Blue Door program is online here.
