As the World Turns: Hurt Village Is a Haunting Portrait of a Working-Class Black Family
Nicholas Christopher and Corey Hawkins in 'Hurt Village.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) It's an odd coincidence that the two excellent plays about contemporary African-American families to arrive so far this season"both by African-American female playwrights"both liken their characters to insects under inspection. In Stick Fly, Lydia R. Diamond's tough but warm examination of race and class among a wealthy black fam…