Sweet Water Taste by Gloria Bond Clooney is a comedy, but gets its deepest laughs from the discomfort of raw truth. A fine Horizon Theatre cast takes the absurdity of clinging to the old racist ways in the new inclusive world to the edge of tragedy, and still leaves the audience laughing through tears.

An historic act of sexual exploitation by a slave owner results generations later in a dispute between two descendants, one white and one black, over the right to be buried in the family cemetery. The story forces the audience to face the continuing conflict between those who expect to control who’s in, who’s out, and who can be where… and those who believe that we are all who’s.

Of course in today’s world ancestry need not rely on family trees but is proven through DNA testing. In Sweet Water Taste the results of a DNA test are left open… perhaps to hammer home the idea that we are all siblings, fellow heirs to the ancestral global estate of the Human family.

The production runs through August 25, 2019; find ticket info at https://www.horizontheatre.com/

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