Fathers And Sons

<p>  “FATHERS AND SONS contains many pungent exchanges and a meaningful subject: the estrangement of fathers and sons through several generations of African-American men and how it might be healed.<br />   The omnipresent phantom Benard Goodwater  is the bad daddy incarnate—a trumpet-toting be-bopping ne’er-do-well who serves as a jive Greek chorus.<br />   He was clearly a lousy father to his haunted son Leon. And Leon returned the disfavor to his own offspring Marcus by becoming a coke-sniffing child-neglecting womanizer himself.<br />   In FATHERS AND SONS the two living relations and the ghostly one confront one another during a family crisis…<br />   Bradford’s dialogue can sizzle and sting and he exhibits a real flair for sexy romantic banter. That gift is exploited in the more intimate sensuous scenes…<br />   Clearly the playwright wants to explore how a man like Marcus can overcome a legacy of parental neglect and misogyny to forge a committed marriage—and maybe even a reconciliation with his father.”<br />Misha Berson Seattle Times</p><p> </p>