Based on the life of musical legend Nina Simone, Black is the Color of My Voice opened last night over at Anken Green, marking new theater troupe Play the Spotlight’s Shanghai debut.
That it’s a one-woman show, even if it is written and performed by insanely talented Apphia Campbell, had us doubting. Solo stage shows, it’s fair to say, can be at best confusing, and at worst unengaging.
Shanghai, we were wrong! Campbell transfixed, she
Advertisement