Buckle your seat belt, you're in for a weird and entertaining ride

It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. But you get a crane-combustion fable in "The Shipment," the bracingly provocative and funny play about African American identity by the avant-gardist Young Jean Lee. Now on view in a Forum Theatre production cannily staged by Psalmayene 24, "The Shipment" aims to make us think hard about stereotypes and the conscious and unconscious assumptions we make regarding race. To this end, the play's many...