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Just about the perfect musician ... Abram Wilson in In the Red and Brown Water. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Everybody splashes around up to their ankles in a real lake on the set of young American writer Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water - which is running at London's Young Vic until November 8. But if water is everywhere in this show, so is jazz music and the blues. The lake symbolises the Louisiana bayou, in which McCraney's play is set, but also the primordial element from which the ancient deities of West African Yoruba culture created the land, and then the creatures on it. Oya, the teenage girl the play revolves around, is a potential star sprinter whose dream of freedom from southlands poverty and racism lies in the feel of her pumping feet thumping the solid earth. Oya was also a Yoruban deity (the... [read full story]
