Dallas Theater Review – “If by Chance” at The MET Theatre

Monday, March 9th, 2009 | Theater Reviews

By day I may be a mild-mannered copywriter and SEO, but by night I transform into an irascible but charming theater critic for John Garcia’s The Column. Here follows an excerpt from one such review.

The playbill describes the story as a “drama about a biracial college student who strives to be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin.” An apt description, but it glosses over the true tension in the story. Chance (Cameron Law) is struggling with his racial identity. His mother felt he would be more successful in life if he assimilated into white society, but in college he meets Truth (Perri Camper), a young woman proud of her African-American heritage, who tries to cultivate Chance’s racial self-awareness.

I love the multilayered thematic depth of this show. It asks so many smart questions and recognizes that the issues of prejudice and identity are not simple. For example, it looks at the ways in which prejudice can be internalized. The story also asks, can the drive to fight prejudice inadvertently perpetuate it? What an interesting idea.

Read the rest of the review at PegasusNews.com.

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