Daniel Watts portrays a character named Black Man with Watermelon in the Signature’s revival Suzan-Lori Parks’ 1990 play “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, AKA The Negro Book of the Dead.” In one alarming moment, wearing a noose around his neck and close to a hanging tree, he says “Can’t breathe!”

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