Broadway/Off-Broadway Show: Let God Be The Judge
Theatre: Louisiana; DVD
Official Debut Date: February 2, 2010
Performers: Clifton Powell, Carl Anthony Payne II, Elise Neal, Ash Davito, C. Anthony Jackson, Carlton Jordon, Sis. Peeola Patterson, Kae Shakir, Vegas, Curtis von Burrell, Bobbi Yarbrough
Blades: 1.5
Grade: WTF?
Bottom-line: Why Jesus, whyyyyyyy????
Review: I’m not tight with the play circuit but I try to stay close, especially with the Negro plays. They usually have something good about them: acting, singing, story, something. This play was a tough one to get through. Although the story and acting were decent it was still a hard play to watch.
Some of the acting was a bit overboard and some of the concept was out there given that I don’t buy into most of what was covered. The entire concept of the courtroom in “Heaven” was interesting but still a bit much. I was unsure why Gabriel needed to be the “judge” if God was the only one to “judge” his followers. Then we had “Satan” as a prosecuting attorney but “God” was too busy to be the judge? Why didn’t “Satan” send his head bitch to try the case? Then there was the random dead chick turned angel that was chosen to be the defense attorney? Umm, ok.
The premise was that some dude was shot by a random stranger and was sent to trial to see if he lived or died. So did the courtroom replace “Purgatory” or represent it now? Either way, random people (all supposedly alive) were sent to this courtroom to give testimony in regards to the fella. WTF? Living folks were just transported to some random “heaven”/”purgatory” to give testimony on homeboy who was supposedly straddling the fence between life and death?
Either way, some weird statements were given as testimony but the last one was the strangest of them all. The last one to testify was the fucking shooter. How the fuck does he of all people get to testify? Shouldn’t that fucker be on trial? Well shit no according to the play. He was someone whose mom was so proud of him and he needed to leave things in the hands of “God” and all that jazz. This dude followed the murder victim after some random night and asumed the dude was gay. With this belief he decided that shooting the victim was best because he assumed the victim was an undercover homosexual sleeping with a woman ready to give her HIV/AIDS. Ummm, and he’s all cool and shit with Jesus/God? WTF? He shot some dude on an assumption and walked the fuck out of the courtroom. Yeah, ok.
This was just a play that made some twisted points that didn’t sit well with me and one lady was “singing” and that shit didn’t sit well with me either. I only recommend this to die hard religious types because they’ll find something to hold onto in this play. Those that question shit may not feel the same because of some conflicting stuff in this play. Even the audience clapping at strange points during the play made no dyamn sense. They didn’t even laugh when jokes were told. Perhaps they didn’t get the jokes? Whatever. I didn’t feel the play and I know the actors could have been in something better. I’ve seen good Gospel plays and this ain’t one of them. 1.5 blades and a WTF? for a piece of shit play that should have been burned down in production to save the masses from viewing it!!
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