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April 30 • 2015
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T
elling our own stories,
in our own time, is what
heals us:' says Captain
John Youngblood (Arthur Beer),
a character in the current JET
production of Sugarhill. Indeed,
some powerful stories are con-
veyed by "the Captain" and his
colorful cohorts in this dynamic
play by local writer Linda Ramsay-
Detherage.
Directed by JET Executive
Director Christopher Bremer,
the play takes place in the small
town of Sugarhill, La., during
a December heat wave in 1941.
War is raging in Europe and the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is
imminent, but the family of Civil War
veteran Captain Youngblood is fighting
a more personal battle: His grand-
daughter, Marietta (Inga R. Wilson), is
returning from a mental hospital after
an aborted suicide attempt. We learn
her anguish was caused by the recent
death of her 12-year-old son, which
also triggered a brain aneurysm in her
husband, Tom (York Griffith), leaving
him confined to a wheelchair in a cata-
tonic state.
While the Captain and the family
caregiver, Yvette (Dominique Lowell),
a Jew whose family emigrated from
pre-war France, attempt to deal with
Marietta's fragile mental state and
unreliable memory, the result of elec-
troshock therapy she received in the
hospital, a mysterious visitor named
Mr. Franklin (Jonathan West) arrives,
a black man who was wounded dur-
ing a manhunt by a local white posse.
Marietta, believing his appearance is
mystically tied to a note left by her
deceased son, tends to his wounds
and helps him hide from his would-be
captors.
The story that unfolds is a beautiful-
ly written and skillfully acted medley
of heartbreak, hope, history, and the
qualities of human nature that endure
regardless of time and circumstances.
Wilson is outstanding as Marietta,
a woman with the persona of a fragile
Southern belle and the underlying
strength of a steel magnolia, and the
rest of the talented ensemble cast
Inge R. Wilson plays Marietta in
JET's production of Suqarhill.
members add context and depth.
Comic relief is provided by Sonja
Marquis, who plays Marietta's over-
bearing sister-in-law, Laurel, whose
unwanted visits include an endless
supply of vile casseroles; and Joel
Mitchell, as Laurel's husband, Davis,
the town mayor and resident bigot.
There also is entertaining interplay
between the recalcitrant Captain and
the feisty Yvette. West is excellent as
the mysterious Mr. Franklin, an edu-
cated man who manages to play dumb
under the suspicious scrutiny of Davis,
who is determined to subject Franklin
to some deep Southern justice; namely,
a lynching.
The atmospheric set and lighting
design by Daniel C. Walker is a beau-
tiful replication of a white-washed
former plantation house, replete
with moss-covered trees alight with
fireflies. Period costumes by Mary
Copenhagen and props by Diane
Ulseth complete the overall effect,
which is further enhanced by the real-
istic sounds of crickets and barking
dogs, orchestrated by Matt Lira.
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Suqarhill runs through May
10 at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield.
(248) 788-2900;
jettheatre.org .