Theater

“Yellowman”: A finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer in drama, Dael Orlander-

smith’s play is a sweepingly poetical yet down-to-earth tale about the ravages of racial elitism and generational abuse in the Gullah-Geechee culture of South Carolina’s Sea Islands. The play commences in the late 1960s, when the burgeoning black pride movement is just distant thunder to the Gullahs, relegated by race to the lowliest occupations of their isolated rural communities. Director Shirley Jo Finney underscores Orlander-

smith’s lyricism with a humor and emotional reserve that makes the final cataclysm all the more wrenching.

-- F. Kathleen Foley

Ends Sunday at the Fountain Theatre, 5060 Fountain Ave., Hollywood. (323) 663-1525