I recently experienced a very captivating production of “The Black Wolfe Tone,” playing at the Irish Rep’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre on W. 22nd Street. The one-man show, written by and starring Kwaku Fortune, is an amazing and deeply personal story about his journey with bi-polar mental illness and growing up a Black man in Ireland. Having a Black mother and a white father, he often experienced discrimination from white Irish people who did not embrace him as one of their own.

Fortune tells a story of a man, now spending his days in a mental hospital, who is trying to figure out how to act in an interview that could determine whether he could be released. As he meets with and speaks to his doctor, the story of how he came to be there is slowly and painfully revealed. This play helps

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