Young Jean Lee Black Identity

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Henry Ford once said, “whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.” Young Jean Lee thought she could, so she did. As a Korean-American, Young Jean Lee took on a different type of task for this show, to write a show about black identity. She collaborated with an all-black cast to help her have a better grasp on the project she laid out for herself. The Shipment is a two-act play, the first act has a dance, a stand-up comic routine, some sketches, and finishes with a song. Then, the second act is its own story, Young Jean Lee asked the actors to tell her characters that they have always wanted to play, and she wrote a comedy incorporating what she could with those requests. She managed to make a show that pulls at the audience’s heart strings, makes them laugh, and at the end, …show more content…
The stand-up comedy portion of the first half spends a lot of time on the issue of race. The comedian often says that he doesn’t want to talk about it, and that he’d rather be talking about other things, like poop. But he always comes back to race because it is such a prominent topic in today’s world. He can make the audience laugh while telling heavy jokes that eventually make them think about why they laughed or if that was something they should have laughed at. It was a great way to get the audience to take a look at themselves and their own behaviors. The song performed at the end of the first half of the performance was very impactful. It was performed by three of the actors without instruments, so it stood on its own by their voices alone. The song was Dark Center of The Universe by Modest Mouse. One line in the song is “an endless ocean landed on an endless desert. Well it’s funny as hell, but no one laughs when they get there.” This is particularly effective because an endless ocean meeting an endless desert should be impossible if they’re both endless, but no one can find the humor in it because
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