FAMILY MATTERSCompany One did itself as proud as a Yoruba deity with The Brother/Sister Plays, an ambitious, hypnotic mix of limited Louisiana possibility and West African mythology that is the work of 31-year-old playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian and Summer L. Williams, the triptych was one part boot-camp bark and muscle, two parts lyrical dream — and a fine cast got the blend just right.
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