What the company does here is create a world of uber-reality by stepping in and out of their roles to present themselves in a play intended to pry laughter out of a melodramatic situation. The level of success at the Majestic is as good as it gets... anywhere. The show is most enjoyable.
While Agrippa Hull was safe from slavery in Stockbridge, he lived much too close to the New York border. Slavery was legal in New York and kidnappers were common. They came across the state line, grabbed Black men, women and children in Massachusetts, and sold them in New York.
