Hang Time

Hang Time5The curtain lifts on three Black men hanging from a tree. It is a shocking sight. Director Zora Howard has the audience sit with this tableau for an uncomfortably long time. We become complicit, a part of the mob that lynched these men. The silence lasts a few minutes – it feels much longer. Hang Time is set in a purgatorial space (there is a hint of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos and the…