Three young ex-cons discover that taking pride in your work--in this case making sandwiches at a truck stop run by a volatile Uzo Aduba, herself a former felon--can put you on the right path in playwright Lynn Nottage's continuing exploration of the forgotten Rust Belt working class. Wearing outfits that look as if they were designed by R. Crumb, Aduba regularly terrorizes the spunky Black unwed mom, the failed Latin bank robber who loves her and the tattooed White supremacist while Ron Cephas-Jones eventually makes them almost as cuddly as his grandchildren on "This Is Us"by teaching them to dream bigger. Great performances cut the treacle and you cut the play a lot of slack because it's so warm-hearted and funny in a good sit-com kind of way.
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