Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks’ bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, “White Noise,” at the Public Theater. Leo wants to become Ralph’s slave….His friends are skeptical, but go along with him. Most audience members will surely require a suspension of disbelief longer than the George Washington Bridge to buy into this premise. The play is also three hours long, features some very long monologues,  and veers at times from uncomfortable to offensive to ludicrous. To top it off, the climax — and much of the rest of the play — occurs in a bowling alley. Yet none of  that really matters. If Parks’ conceit is fanciful, the play is predominantly neither farcical nor fierce. It’s illuminating.  White Noise dips deep into the racial divide in America.

Full review on D.C. Theatre Scene

Zoë Winters, Thomas Sadoski, Daveed Diggs, and Sheria Irving in the world premiere of White Noise, written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Oskar Eustis, running at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Joan Marcus.

Daveed DIggs and Sheria Irving

Daveed Diggs and Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters

White Noise Daveed Diggs, Thomas Sadoski, Zoë Winters and Sheria Irving in the world premiere of White Noise, written by Suzan-Lori Parks and directed by Oskar Eustis, running at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Joan Marcus.

Thomas Sadoski, Daveed Diggs, Zoë Winters and Sheria Irving

Tomas Sadoski, Zoe Winters

Thomas Sadoski, Daveed Diggs

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