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You didn\u2019t vote for Donald Trump. You don\u2019t care who people love, what a person\u2019s race is, or how they worship. You are as open-minded as a person can be. You are a modern-day Matt Drayton, a progressive-thinking character in Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/em> now playing at Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Beltsville, Maryland. Well, maybe you are not a rich newspaper publisher in San Francisco like Drayton, but hopefully, you will find some similarity in political views<\/p>\n

Matt, like many progressives, probably favors public transportation until the construction crews rip his familiar routes to shreds for what seems like an eternity to make \u201cimprovements.\u201d Never mind pollution from the standing traffic, losses to businesses on the affected roads, or frustration of people living in the way of progress, these not-in-my-backyard conservatives must be ignored for the sake of progress.<\/p>\n

In Drayton\u2019s case, the issue is not transportation in the 21st century; it is race in 1967 America.<\/p>\n

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Samara Braverman as Joey Drayton and Joseph Battley II as Dr. John Prentice in \u2018Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner.\u2019 Photo by Manny Mendez photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drayton (Bill Bodie) is an established rich, white, \u201960s liberal; he is pro-New Deal, pro-Civil Rights, anti-Jim Crow, and anti-Vietnam War. As a newspaper publisher Drayton has risen to the top of San Fransico society promoting his views. All of that is challenged when his daughter brings her new love in for a surprise visit.<\/p>\n

The man Joanna Drayton (Samara Braverman) has fallen for is perfect on paper: a highly acclaimed, world-renowned research doctor. Dr. John Prentice (Joseph Battley II), however, is Black, surprise. Her parents never saw that coming and neither did the Negro maid.<\/p>\n

Todd Kreidler\u2019s 2012 stage adaptation of\u00a0William Rose<\/a>‘s screenplay works as a drama with humorous lines tossed in. Director John Cusumano adds entrances as character introductions to scenes to create more cohesion in the play.<\/p>\n

Cusumano has filled the set with old furniture, a black rotary phone, three doors providing imagination for a larger home, and an opening for a terrace the troupe paints as a cactus garden for the audience to see. Rick Bergmann\u2019s lighting adds a sense of more room than the set provides for the home.<\/p>\n

Dr. Prentice wants Drayton\u2019s approval to marry his lily-white daughter, who has no idea of what she, they, or their future children are getting into. Is the publisher simply a concerned father as he claims, or a first-class bigot and hypocrite as other characters point out?<\/p>\n

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Pat Bullock as Mary Prentice and Joseph Battley II as Dr. John Prentice; Nancy Somers as Christina Drayton and Neil Swanson-Chrisman as Monsignior Ryan; Bill Bodie as Matt Drayton and Elizabeth Wiggins as Tillie Binks; Bill Bodie as Matt Drayton and Edward V. Crews as John Prentice Sr., in \u2018Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner.\u2019 Photos by Manny Mendez photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The drama crashes against Drayton and his thinking. A couple of scenes hold the mirror against double standards. One features Monsignor Mike Ryan (Neil Swanson-Chrisman), who is a good friend of the seemingly irreligious publisher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see a\u00a0broken-down\u00a0phony old liberal come face to face with his principles,\u201d Ryan says, as the newspaper man attempts to justify his reaction. \u201cI\u2019ve always known that behind that fighting liberal\u00a0fa\u00e7ade,\u00a0there must be some sort of\u00a0reactionary bigot\u00a0trying to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is not what Drayton wants to hear, but it serves as a slow-working salve for the man\u2019s reasoning. Later, the publisher is a sportswriter in his early days ringside at Yankee Stadium on June 22, 1938. He is covering the rematch between German Max Schmeling and Black American Joe Louis.<\/p>\n

With World War II quickly approaching, Louis\u2019 manhandling Schmeling in less than one round is a victory for America, one everyone was proud of, Drayton remembers. Or was it? Jim Crow still ruled in the South. Integration continued to separate men in the military. Culture divided America in 1938, 1967, and many say today.<\/p>\n

The doctor remembers the Louis knockout a little differently. Extended family members were gathered at his grandmother\u2019s house in Mississippi to listen to the Montgomery Ward\u2019s radio set up in the yard. After the white man was counted out, Prentice\u2019s older male cousins danced around the yard, throwing punches at each other. The doctor, who was probably about five at the time, wandered toward the adults. His father, John Prentice Sr. (Edward V. Crews), put the boy on his shoulder calling him Lil\u2019 Brown. Louis was known as the Brown Bomber.<\/p>\n

The acting in UpStage Artists production is a mix of veterans at their best, starting with Bodie. Sometimes rational, often irrational, when Matt Drayton asks his wife Christina, “When you imagined looking through Joey’s [Joanna’s] wedding pictures, did it ever, remotely-ever, occur to you that the man standing beside her would be like him?” Bodie’s delivery gives one the impression he’s questioning the audience.<\/p>\n

Bodie keeps that journalist interrogatory that helps Drayton survive this crisis in his life throughout the performance.<\/p>\n

Nancy Somers plays the multiple faces of Christina Drayton very well. Introduced as a chic gallery owner, her personal values are attacked by her daughter\u2019s surprise. Somers\u2019 character is more willing to adapt to a mother\u2019s supporting role than what people will think. But Christina works through it on stage.<\/p>\n

Battley\u2019s doctor is a character without blemish. Historians argue that it was necessary for the film to fly in 1967, but more modern critics take issue. I sometimes wear a historian\u2019s hat, but when I review, I attempt to call the work as I see it. For the most part, Battley\u2019s Dr. Prentice was cool, calm, and understated. There were times when the good doctor\u2019s emotion was stirred, showing he was a self-made man. One key is a monologue aimed at his father about their generations and differences. You, Dr. Prentice says, \u201cthink of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braverman made her UpStage debut in the difficult role of Joanna Drayton. Ms. Drayton, aka Joey, met the doctor while spending 10 days in Hawaii. However, her father was upset about Joey not calling on Sunday \u201cbecause she always calls on Sunday.\u201d Assuming the recent collage grad was vacationing, and not working on an internship in a hospital or university where the doctor was working, how did they meet? If that is a flaw, it is on the plot, or a dim reviewer, not the players.<\/p>\n

Braverman sells her love for Prentice as the real deal, but it has only been 10 days. The character is determined. Is she a liberal fighting the bigotry and racism she sees in her father and future father-in-law, or is it affection? Joanna thinks it is love, and at 23 she can\u2019t see why everyone else doesn\u2019t recognize it.<\/p>\n

Crews\u2019 character thinks much like Matt Drayton minus the political haze. Prentice Sr., sees prejudice as real. He wants neither his son nor potential grandchildren to face the dangers interracial marriage will bring them. Mary Prentice (Pat Bullock) wholeheartedly agrees. She explains how heartbroken the doctor was after losing his wife and son in an auto accident years earlier. Mrs. Prentice never wants to see him suffer like that again.<\/p>\n

That sense of suffering and humility unites the mothers. The Draytons lost a son. Although they are from different sides of the track, death doesn\u2019t recognize ZIP codes.<\/p>\n

Swanson-Chrisman brings his reliable acting to the Ryan role. When not playing devil\u2019s advocate to Matt Drayton\u2019s liberal sensibilities, the monsignor provides a touch of comic relief. Rev. Dr. Elizabeth L.E. Wiggins provides most of the humor as the maid Tillie Banks.<\/p>\n

Hailing from Georgia, this Black woman is like a second mother to Joanna and a family protector. She has no problem letting the doctor know she thinks he\u2019s a conman attempting to rob the Draytons and she will not let him do it.<\/p>\n

Lisa Troshinsky plays another difficult but important role as Hillary St. George, Christina\u2019s assistant at the gallery. St. George saves the day, cancelling a business lunch with a major client after the daughter\u2019s \u201csurprise\u201d shortly before the luncheon. Mrs. Prentice is shocked and drinking heavily. Besides, what would the client think seeing the doctor in the home?<\/p>\n

St. George is sacked after offering some unwarranted bigoted advice, but St. George\u2019s counsel helped open Christina\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n

I liked the play. It’s adapter Todd Kreidler\u2019s big hit. But don\u2019t go expecting to see the movie. Beltsville is not Hollywood. UpStage Artists charge only $10 a ticket because their mission is to make live performances affordable. The audience gets more than it pays for with Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner.<\/i><\/p>\n

Running Time: One hour and 40 minutes, with one ten-minute intermission.<\/p>\n

Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>plays through May 4, 2025 (Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2 PM), presented by\u00a0UpStage Artists<\/a>\u00a0performing at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville, MD. Purchase tickets ($10)\u00a0online.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

COVID Safety: <\/b>Masks are recommended, not mandatory.<\/p>\n

Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner
\n<\/strong><\/em>By Todd Kreidler
\nBased on the screenplay by William Rose
\nDirected by John Cusumano<\/p>\n

CAST
\nBill Bodie as Matt Draydon
\nJoseph Battley II as Dr. John Prentice
\nSamara Braverman as Joanna Drayton
\nEdward V. Crews as John Prentice Sr.
\nNancy Somers as Christina Drayton
\nNeil Swanson-Chrisman as Monsignor Mike Ryan
\nElizabeth L.E. Wiggins as Tillie Banks
\nLisa Troshinsky as Hillary St. George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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