The Strangest Yard: Whipping, or The Football Hamlet, reviewed. Plus: King Kirby.
Chris Klimek
Emily Whitworth and Kamau Mitchell in Whipping. (Kathleen Akerley)
My review of Kathleen Akerley’s latest opus, Whipping, or The Football Hamlet, is in today’s Washington City Paper, along with a few paragraphs about another show that has regrettably already closed: Crystal Skillman & Fred Van Lente’s King Kirby, a bio-play about legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby and his lifelong struggle to be fairly compensated for the dozens of Marvel Comics characters he created—or co-created with Stan Lee. They don’t agree on who did what, and therein lies the tale.
If this subject interests you, I recommend Sean Howe’s 2012 history Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.