Is hip-hop an intrinsically Black art form? Is it also inherently straight, misogynist and homophobic? These questions and many, many more besides are asked in Dan McCabe’s play about cultural ownership and prejudice, which premiered to acclaim in Boston in 2019, two years after he graduated from Juilliard.
Amit Sharma’s production for his first season at the Kiln Theatre reveals The Purists to be an intriguing but rambling work, fascinating and frustrating by turns, illuminated here by blazing performances from Sule Rimi and relative newcomer Tiffany Gray.
