Passing Strangely Through Blackness
-Kwan Booth
For the last couple of weeks, downtown Berkeley has had a serious Negro Problem, and it’s name is Stew. Since mid October, Stew has been appearing in the play, “Passing Strange”, a coming of age travelogue that follows a young man’s search for self, art and “The Real” from Los Angeles through the wild streets of Amsterdam and Germany.
This is the first play written by the single monickered Stew, founder of the critically acclaimed LA pop rock band “The Negro Problem”. It’s mainly a search for identity as the main character, known only as “The Youth”, played by Daniel Breaker, follows in the expatriate footsteps of “King James Baldwin and Queen Josephine Baker”, two black Americans famous for their journeys to Europe in search of artistic freedom. (more…)
