Richard Greenberg’s 2004 Tony-winning play about the fallout when a Major League baseballer goes public with his sexuality gets a first-rate Broadway revival.
The fallout from that announcement takes his Empires teammates and fans by surprise, unleashing waves of uneasiness. The ripple effect triggers homophobia and racism, class divisions, identity struggles and manly insecurities, exposing the fissures in the fragile bonhomie of the team in ways that lead inexorably to tragedy. It’s to Greenberg’s credit that it’s not the same hackneyed tragedy that usually results from such stories.
Darren is a singular protagonist partly because his Blackness — white father, Black mother — is initially as much a non-issue as his relaxed masculinity. A “one-man emblem of racial harmony” is how white teammate Kippy Sunderstrom describes him. “Even in baseball — one of the few realms of American life in which people of color are routinely adulated by people of pallor, he was something special,” adds Kippy. “A Black man who you could imagine had never suffered.
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