Master

See it if you enjoy performance/installation art, are a fan of W. David Hancock's experimental work, or like being challenged by new forms

Don't see it if you don't like experimental work or being unsettled by open-ended provocations about race, Huck Finn, art, family and cultural memory

See it if You're looking for something really deep.

Don't see it if You don't care about important things like race, art, and death.

Also I had no idea what I was in for. I left trying not to cry - it was embarrassing. It really effected me in so many ways and I can't stop thinking about it. It's raw and real.... Read more Read less

See it if You want a transformative experience in the theater and you care about what great art has to say about the times we're living in.

Don't see it if You want to be entertained.

Also MASTER was a transformative experience in the theatre. It is poetically and politically resonant on so many levels. The space itself (the set?) is a sprawling gallery filled with sensitive and often devastating visual art by a man named Uncle Jimmy who was obsessed with re-framing Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn on terms that reflected the political and social realities of the Black experience in America. Eventually - Uncle Jimmy's surviving family speaks about the man himself and the gallery is transformed in their narration of the great works on display. I haven't seen a piece of theatre that addresses race and art in America like this one does - it's emotional, raw, and staggeringly beautiful. It also doesn't tell you how to think or feel - it just lets you have an experience, and leaves you in the end almost breathless and heartbroken, but ready to see differently. It was one of the most meaningful experiences I've had in the theater in a very long time and I won't forget it.... Read more Read less

See it if You are smarter than I am. This may make sense to its creator, who has focused on it, but he does not strive to let others into his vision.

Don't see it if You want to come in, sit down, and enjoy a show which tells a clear story, easily understood, and go home entertained or educated.