“The Bluest Eye”
“The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is a beautiful yet tragic story of childhood innocence lost, that also pounds home the point that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Lydia Diamond captures the power of Morrison’s unique literary voice with her adaption of Morrison’s seminal 1970 novel, a candid exploration of the painful voyage of Pecola Breedlove (Dominique Chestand), an 11-year-old African American girl tragically obsessed with the idea that having blue eyes will magically make her beautiful.
The University Theater’s performance of “The Bluest Eye,” directed by Derrick Sanders, contains some outstanding performances, including by Dominque Chestand (middle) as Pecola Breedlove and Olivia D. Dawson (right), in the role of Claudia.
Emotionally and dramatically intense and dealing with abuse, poverty, and molestation, “The Bluest Eye” is not for young children.
“The Bluest Eye” runs until Saturday, March 15, at Mitchell Theatre in Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m., and matinees begin at 2 p.m. Individual tickets for all productions are $20 for the general public and $14 for UW-Madison students.
—A. David Dahmer
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