![]() ![]() Set in Harlem in the 1920s, “Jazz” is the story of Violet (C. ![]() ![]() And indeed, the play starts with a funeral and moves backward and forward from there. Kimie Nishikawa’s fascinating set is dominated by a huge skylight perched at an angle, suggesting the raised lid of a coffin, with a small plot of flowers below. It’s a welcome return to MTC for playwright Kelley, whose adaption of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” played there in 2017, and whose Greek tragedy remix “Xtigone” premiered at San Francisco’s African-American Shakespeare Company in 2015. It also has a compellingly jazzy score composed by Marcus Shelby, resident artistic director of SFJAZZ. It’s lyrical and nonlinear, sometimes seemingly free-form and full of repeated riffs. Kelley’s new play “Jazz” at Marin Theatre Company is well named. Like the Toni Morrison novel on which it’s based, Nambi E. ![]()
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