unsuppressed

The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.

2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times