Lives in the Bayou Tap All the Realism of Dreams
BEN BRANTLEYNovember 18, 2009: Spinning stories becomes a blessed biological process in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays,” as natural and necessary as breathing. It is said of one character in this gorgeous trilogy, which opened Tuesday night at the Public Theater, where it runs in repertory through Dec. 13, that she “breathes like the wind.” So do Mr. McCraney’s plays, which are pumped full of a senses-heightening oxygen that leaves you tingling.
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