The Bluest Eye’ and ‘The Humours of Bandon’ add to the artistically diverse offerings at Washington theaters

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST

The furnishings by set designer Tiffani Sydnor are, like the characters, modest, and Ramsey-Zöe drums up the right homespun rhythms in the Playhouse’s black-box theater. Of special achievement is Pauline Lamb as Claudia and Frieda’s mother, a woman with no illusions about how much this world offers her. Delusion is Pecola’s heart-rending affliction; one leaves “The Bluest Eye” with hope that a child’s eyes are wider open these days to who they are, not who they can’t be.