Chadwick Boseman was not only an accomplished actor and Marvel superhero before his untimely death in 2020. Perhaps best known as T’Challa in Black Panther, he was also a writer – and this 2005 play bears all the lost promise of his talents.
It is an ambitious, sprawling, music-filled story of a Black woman, Azure (Selina Jones), mourning her fiance, Deep (Jayden Elijah), who has been killed by a police officer. Inspired by the 2000 death of a university student, Prince Jones, it splices the theme of police violence in the US with a Shakespearean plot of jealousy, injustice, revenge and grief.
