Titled Iceland, the play—which reunites Smith with Newton sound designer Marc Anthony Thompson— "takes us volcano-hopping, from the tropics to the Arctic and back home to Brooklyn to confront man-made disasters." Iceland is further described as a "meditation on exile, the cataclysmic terror of nature, and the no-less-catastrophic terror of man." A Huey P. Newton Story starred Smith as the mercurial and controversial former leader of the Black Panthers. Putting on Newton's odd falsetto voice and quirky speech patterns, Smith related Newton's law skirting adventures and singular viewpoint while working his way through a pack of Kool cigarettes. Critics hailed the work as kinetic and thrilling. Both Smith and Thompson won Obie Awards.
Iceland is presented in association with the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
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