Press Quotes
“In his language-drunk play LEMUEL, Lonnie Carter has drawn on everything from the spiraling patter of modernist writers Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, to the embroidered exhortations of Jesse Jackson, to the infectious rhythms of rap, hip-hop and funk … LEMUEL is dazzling chamber theater.” —Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“If one man’s story can speak for his time, then Lonnie Carter’s LEMUEL sings it in jumping jive talk, ragged rhythms, choral chanting, hip-hop tongue twisters and the rolling thunder of a civil rights sermon.” —Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Reader