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“In The Continuum,” a play by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter, gives two black women at opposite ends of the social spectrum and opposite ends of the earth a voice in the conversation about HIV/AIDS. With an optimism about its timely relevance, Pegasus Players has brought the well-received play back to Chicago after a 2007 staging at the Goodman Theatre. Directed at Pegasus by Producing Artistic Director Ilesa Duncan, the hard-hitting production manages to be hard-hitting not by verbally hitting its audience hard on the head with forgettable facts and figures, but by cementing its argument with gloriously realized relationships. Though the play’s ending could be explored further and expanded upon—right now, it’s a bit of a means to an end—“In The Continuum” brings a difficult but important conversation to the theater. Read the rest of this entry »