Sal Capone at the NAC suffers from communication problems
Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy of …By Omari Newton
Directed by Diane Roberts. NAC English Theatre— a Boldskool production with Holding space productions
It’s only reasonable that anyone with a genuine social conscience might be driven to embrace the idea of a stage piece driven by the truth that black lives do — really do — matter.
But it might be stretching matters somewhat to assert that the current offering in the NAC Studio — Sal Capone: The Lamentable tragedy of — is really injecting any fresh insights into the conversation. On the other hand, it’s rather difficult to know for certain.
What this production of Montreal playwright Omari Newton’s 2013 drama does provide are moments of bold theatricality and a rhythmic insistence that can easily become seductive. And there is no doubt that it is fuelled by anger — anger arising from the real-life 2008 shooting of an unarmed black teenager by the Montreal police. …