Lifeline's staging of Charles Johnson's novel has sea legs. Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may be central to the American dream of liberty, but it's also a false narrative of freedom. We see that clearly in Ilesa Duncan and David Barr III's Middle Passage, adapted from Charles Johnson's 1990 National Book Award-winning novel, which hit the boards with Pegasus a few y…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PM on March 3, 2020