BWW Review: Constantly Under Siege, Hurston's Heroines Retain Their Admirable SPUNK
by Perry Tannenbaum - Oct 8, 2015
Prefacing his 1990 playscript for SPUNK, a musical amalgam of three saucy Zora Neale Hurston short stories, George C. Wolfe warned that there was a thin line between Zora and the minstrelsy of Amos and Andy. On Q Performing Arts director Jermaine Nakia Lee fearlessly tramples on that line, giving us the opportunity to appreciate and critically examine Hurston's understated feminism in a richly ambivalent production.