New York Amsterdam News: Being Chaka is a Deep Production
By Linda Armstrong
There are shows you come across that you have to allow to marinate in your mind, soul, and heart. That is what happened to me when I saw “being chaka,” a play that dealt with a young Black high school student from the ghetto suddenly finding himself in a private, mainly white high school, and having to decide whether his story brings with it the baggage of slavery and the pain from his father’s death, or whether he can decide on his own future based on who he is as an individual, learning the lessons from his heritage.