Presented by Black Artists Collective as part of WaterTower Theater's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival, and running for two performances, A Shift In Relativity is a one-act play about a black college teacher with a wife and young son, who has everything going for him. He comes out to his gay dads and wonders why the dominant dad is upset. We meet his lover, one of his former white students. Also thrown into the mix is his sister, played in drag, who appears to be 11 months pregnant and eventually disappears into a back room in the house to give birth. Never mind calling a doctor or hospital. Her labor lasts about 15 seconds.
This bit of nonsense runs on for 30 minutes and would be even more tiring than it is if not for Jerrica Roy's performance as the Latin wife. She appears to be the only member of this artists collective with any degree of talent. The script isn't bad but hardly anything original.<
