The quest to create the perfect sandwich takes on existential tones in Clyde’s, the tasty if occasionally and slightly undercooked new dramedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.
Though it lacks the heft of the playwright’s great Sweat, Clyde’s makes for an intriguing companion piece.Starring a scenery-chewing (and that’s not a slam) Uzo Aduba and a calming Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde’s is set in a truck stop sandwich shop in Pennsylvania, one of those last-chance places dotting America’s highways both concrete and metaphysical, somewhere between the roadside hash joint of The Petrified Forest and the Double R Diner of Twin Peaks. (Since its 2019 world premiere production at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, and in the aftermath of
Read more on deadline.com