“The Nacirema Society” could have been an edifying experience for viewers, as well as an entertaining one. That road hasn’t been taken, and the result is a comedy whose laughs lack deeper resonance.
Everything about the Chicago premiere of Pearl Cleage’s “The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years” at Goodman Theatre is
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Pearl Cleage’s exuberant drama, now at the Goodman Theatre, is a nuanced, fraught and incongruously hilarious exploration of class privilege, generational wealth and family betrayal.
“The idea that I’ve managed to do enough work that means something to people, that they would choose to do this in a great theater town like Chicago is really wonderful,” the playwright says.