St. Paul, Minn.: love (and race) as a contact sport.(FRONT and CENTER)(Slippery When Wet)(Theater Review)

There are constituent principles of autobiography embedded in Slippery When Wet, a play about an interracial attraction fraught with tensions. in such a manner while playwright Suzen Murakoshi herself initiated the part of Helen in the play's early productions, during the mid-1990s, she's quite satisfy to pass her mantle to a younger actress for the play's opening this month at Penumbra Theatre Company in St Paul, Minn. Murakoshi insists that Helen must follow across as a woman, not a girl: "She's young, she's of recent origin to New York, she's still at the lenity of the city. But she's not stupid."