The Shipment October 4, 2009

Over the past five years, Young Jean Lee has matured into one of the leading and most provocative voices in contemporary theater. Her most recent work, THE SHIPMENT, ups the ante in confronting her fear about creating an ethnic identity play through the lens of a "black identity politics show." In what is arguably her most hilarious yet challenging work to date, Lee and a talented cast of 5 African-American performers create an unsettling terrain of well-trodden stereotypes that dare audiences to laugh as they consider their own preconceptions about race and culture.