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The Best Brother begins in the 1980’s. Two pre-teen African-American boys–models of brotherly closeness–are being raised in Harlem by an American mother and a righteous, religious African-born father who violently resists his wife’s ambition to become a professional singer. When these parents are forced by their cultural differences to divorce, their boys are separated. The elder son, Daniel, must go with his father to Angola, where the father dies fighting in the Civil War. The younger boy, Paolo, must remain here with his mother, who loses her operatic voice and descends into alcoholism. Twenty-two years later, the older son, now a religious man, finds the means to return to America and reconnect with his long-lost family. To his despair, he finds that his mother has died, and his beloved brother is nowhere to be found. Although repatriated, Daniel does not understand the new America and finds himself in another war trying to restore closeness with his long-lost brother. The play asks, “Under what circumstances does brotherly love allow itself to thrive?”
Show Notes: No intermission
Performance Schedule:
THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Director
Victor Vauban Júnior
Written by
Victor Vauban Júnior
