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Cooper a post-graduate entomologist who is an independent, passionate feminist filled with rage over the hypocrisy shown to educated Black woman. She is the daughter of a well know Black scholar who divorced her mother before she was born thus denying her a part of his family status. The LeVay family is old money, privileged and snobbishly proud. The patriarch, Joseph Philip Edward Van Lear revised the role his created in the production is a brain surgeon, Flip the charismatic Michael Pogue , the oldest son, is a womanizer plastic surgeon who had a one-night-stand with Taylor six years earlier.

Few white folks me included knew of these families yet history is filled with their accomplishments. How American their story is and how little we know about them. The storyline is the stuff of parlor room melodrama with a twist—it is from a Black point of view. Even though the LeVay family is affluent, educated and cultured, they have the vanity, sexual appetites and issues that all families have.

But add the class element to the racial one and we have a 21st Century drama. Lydia Diamond fills the play with an emotional attack on the socially aware white liberals whose condescending attitude is the most vicious and damaging racism.

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Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago Reader. The Hawk Chicago. Picture This Post. Open-Captioned performance: Saturday, March 14, at 3pm. Join us after every Tuesday evening performance excluding First Week and any extension weeks for a minute discussion of the play, facilitated by a member of the WT Artistic Team. Join us after every Wednesday evening performance excluding First Week and any extension weeks for a minute talk-back featuring actors from the production, facilitated by a member of the WT Artistic Team.

Join us at pm in the Patron's Lounge before every Thursday evening performance excluding First Week and any extension weeks for a minute primer on the context and content of the play, facilitated by a member of the WT Artistic Team. To the top Close. As Taylor succinctly reminds us I say "us" because nearly everyone in the audience at the performance I attended was white , it takes more than being a white liberal to be an ally. Our security in our own skin must be stripped away, thrown onto a slide and carefully examined.

White privilege oozes. It doesn't sit still. Much like the common fly, it flits, never in one place for too long. And each time it lands, it makes a mess. Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended. The plot seems overstuffed with too many intricate discussions about race, culture and entitlement. Unfortunately the play often comes off more like a soap opera-like melodrama, than an honest drama, making it a little difficult to take very seriously.

Chicagoland Theater Reviews - Highly Recommended. The revelation centering on Cheryl goes on too long and if the playwright chooses to cut her script that's the place to start. But mostly Diamond's writing is articulate and stimulating and the familiarity of the dysfunctional tropes in the narrative is a minor price to pay for the vibrant dialogue vibrantly performed.

The play's title refers to the practice of entomologist Taylor gluing house flies to a stick so she can study the insect's speedy flying patterns. Its precise relevance to the storyline eluded me. In Diamond's Stickfly, receiving a stellar production at Writers Theatre, we become a fly on the wall for a combative and contentious family battle, one that veers toward ugly, and delves into family secrets perhaps better left unspoken.

Chicago Theater and Arts - Highly Recommended. Chicago On Stage - Highly Recommended. Fundamentally, though, Stick Fly is more personal than that. PicksInSix - Highly Recommended. Picture This Post - Recommended. Amidst the very funny banter, real life truths rear up. You don't have to look too deep.