"Ink'dWell" is a haunting and well-told ghost story. Adams creates a beautifully theatrical world here that would certainly give directors, designers, and actors a field day. Not only is the world established and aesthetically cohesive and interesting, but she has also crafted five amazing roles, including four spectacular parts for black women. The piece explores universal themes of family secrets and shame, mental health, and repeated patterns in a way that completely acknowledges and highlights and complex, specific intersectional identities of its characters. The ending utilizes empty...
"Ink'dWell" is a haunting and well-told ghost story. Adams creates a beautifully theatrical world here that would certainly give directors, designers, and actors a field day. Not only is the world established and aesthetically cohesive and interesting, but she has also crafted five amazing roles, including four spectacular parts for black women. The piece explores universal themes of family secrets and shame, mental health, and repeated patterns in a way that completely acknowledges and highlights and complex, specific intersectional identities of its characters. The ending utilizes empty stage space powerfully, followed by a poignant, cathartic, and hopeful tableaux.