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“You know,” Pindell tells herself, in whiteface, “I hear your experiences and I think, well … it’s got to be in your art in a way we consider valid.”

Further, she criticized Chicago police for their alleged failure to investigate an online video showing one of the brothers “in whiteface doing a joke monologue with white makeup on,”

Mr. Van Peebles said that studio executives wanted a White movie star — such as Jack Lemmon — to play the role in blackface but that he persuaded them to use Black comedian Godfrey Cambridge in whiteface.

This role is played by Matthew Hancock, who while delivering a sprawling monologue, applies whiteface in preparation of taking on the roles of both George and M’Closky.

There is whiteface, redface and blackface, along with narrative flourishes delivered by a stand-in for the playwright himself.