Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor

Passionate, poetic, pointed, and deeply moving, American Moor explores the experience of a large, middle-aged, black man auditioning for the role of Othello, while responding to suggestions from a white, often younger, artistic director who presumes he understands how to maximize a black character for believability. American Moor is an unapologetic look into a theater industry irony that serves as metaphor for our most pressing societal condition, and an issue that is certainly fresh in the mind of the greater DC community: white culture dictating rules of conduct to a non-white one from an often-inadvertent place of privilege.