Furthermore you overlook the other Kabuki influenced and inspired characters. Pay close attention to entrances and exits. The heightened use of language, the weight placed on names. You make it sound once again as if laughter is a terrible thing for not only a writer but also a performer to accomplish. I agree that Marcus Young does not acquit himself.
Nothing comes out of the boy.
Race is not the only presence on stage, although I can understand that skin color hits YOU first. There is nothing cosmetic about being who you are. There is nothing cosmetic about taking all that you have and all that you are to create a character, to create theatre. If anything it would be the other way around. Back in 1993, when Jeune Lune first mounted Gozzi's play, Calmon was embodied as a gigantic visage and gigantic hand.