'Wild With Happy' review: Stars Domingo

Colman Domingo and Sharon Washington in Wild With Happy, written by Colman Domingo and directed by Robert O'Hara, running at The Public Theater at Astor Place from Oct. 9 through Nov. 11, 2012. Credit: Joan Marcus
Director Robert O'Hara, known as a playwright of subversive power, modulates his cast in the narrow range between bellowing and barking. Domingo seems straitjacketed as the sensible one, the Yale-educated gay son confronting cultural expectations about the funeral of his mother. Sharon Washington toggles boisterously between two roles, the mother and her sister. Maurice McRae finds a few new layers in the prototype of a flamboyantly femme friend. But the most original moments come from Clint Ramos' scenery, which appears to create life from caskets.
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