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American Theatre, October, 2006 by Orel, Gwen
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The reporter's terse announcement sounds like a gag from "The Daily Show": "A slave ship has just risen out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty!" But as delivered by protean actor Daniel Beaty in his one-man, 40-character blend of drama, comedy and spoken word, Emergence-SEE!--which has its New York premiere Oct.
10-Nov. 12 at the Public Theater--the joke is freighted with somber undertones. For all its virtuosic wit, Beaty's show aims to explore nothing less than "what slavery did to the psyche of the country, not just black people." ...
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