THEATER
WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - 8, 2019
8:00 PM

The HawtPlates: Waterboy and the Mighty World
Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn

$20
https://www.thebushwickstarr.org/waterboy-and-the-mighty-world

The family trio The HawtPlates examines the fraught relationship between people of color and law enforcement in America through the lens of the historical figure Bass Reeves, one of the first U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi and the first one who was African-American, period. Unfortunately, also through the lens of the folky music of Odetta (great politics — but that insipid music). The HawtPlates are sharp and eclectic enough, though — they also promise Korean Pansori, Mantra, dirge, Gospel, and experimental R&B — that the earnest folk music shouldn't be too much of a problem.

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