[NEohioPAL] Review of "Objectively/Reasonable" by Playwrights Local

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Playwright Local’s ‘Objectively/Reasonable’ hits home hard



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

  

Dontre Hamilton.  Eric Garner.  Ezell Ford.  Akai Gurley.  Michael Brown Jr. 



Do you recognize these names?  If not, you’ve stumbled onto the reason behind “Objectively/Reasonable,” a dramatic work receiving its world premiere at Playwrights Local.  



These names represent just a few of the unarmed black men in America who have been recently killed by white police officers.  “Objectively/Reasonable” serves to call attention to these deaths and the Black Lives Matter movement by drawing focus to Cleveland and the fatal 2014 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.



Tamir became a sad statistic on a cold November afternoon under the gazebo of the Cudell Recreation Center and will be forever linked to the phrase “objectively reasonable,” which has become the legal standard for justifiable force in local law enforcement.  But will the things that made him unique and will the truly tragic circumstances of his demise be remembered?



 For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/. 
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