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The Mojo and the Sayso which opened at ACT last night is four actors and a car, but the car is the thing, the main entity. The car is the set, the stage, and the focal character. It may not have any lines, but it stands in for everything that moves playwright Aisha Rahman's story forward. It's the absent child, gunned down by aggro off-duty cops, it's the broken family, being rebuilt from the ground up with parts scavenged from here or there, it's the hard facts of terrestrial life in the face of the easy fixes of shyster spirituality. Jennifer Zeyl designed the set. She's a genius, we hear.

Intiman's current production of Native Son is so good, we hardly feel qualified to talk about it. Go see it. It's fast, with no intermission, and it burns through the pages of Richard Wright's 1940 text with a violence that doesn't dissipate when the thing ends and you're thrown out onto the streets of Seattle only to realize the play is still being acted out all around you. You can't really go home from this one.

Tuesday 7th