Who’s your favorite superhero with no powers? An important discussion for many 14-year-old boys, but an even more pressing one for Flat Joe and Tramarion, who together are creating Maasai Angel, a superhero comic book of their own inspired by Tramarion’s single mother, Sabrina. The most interesting characters aren’t those...
Who’s your favorite superhero with no powers? An important discussion for many 14-year-old boys, but an even more pressing one for Flat Joe and Tramarion, who together are creating Maasai Angel, a superhero comic book of their own inspired by Tramarion’s single mother, Sabrina.
The first half of the show plays out in traditional realist fashion. Tramarion Jackson is in full prep mode to appear on a television quiz show about African American history. He’s got all the answers down – black inventors, black political figures, black artists, black social activists, etc. Here Craig-Galvan nicely injects a little schooling on oft-neglected black history.
Unable to process her son's death, Sabrina, enters a semi-catatonic state, much to the chagrin of everyone around her. Lena wants her to just get better and move on and Coach and the cop desperately want her forgiveness.Baffled by a Black mother who refuses to play into the expected grieving parent playbook, they hound her incessantly, demanding she come on the air and tell her story.
By the time we hit Act Two, realism is out the window. Sabrina has imagined herself into a comic book space where she transforms into her son’s Maasai Angel on a quest to confront the “entity” and get back “what she’s lost”. Along the way she meets villains to be fought, a narrator to heed, and a hero or two that will help her see the light.Narratively, Maasai Angel’s quests and confrontations limp along.
If there is one bright spot in the second half of the play, it's Maasai Angel's final comic book encounter with Black Superman . Finally, Craig-Galvan gives us a meeting worth savoring. Black Superman may be a man of steel, but it’s his kind heart that ultimately helps Maasai Angel.
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