''I call 'The Colored Museum' an exorcism and a party,'' the 32-year-old playwright said in an interview yesterday. Wolfe deftly parodies black realism (''A Raisin in the Sun''), black existentialism (''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf'') and black musicals (''Your Arms Too Short to Box With God''). ![]() Wolfe's play that opened Sunday at the Public Theater to enthusiastic notices, are scenes, highbrow and lowdown, drawn from that culture and filtered through a prism of rage: In the first, for example, an airline attendant on ''celebrity slaveship'' instructs the passengers on the proper way to fasten their shackles in ''The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play,'' Mr. The ''exhibits'' in ''The Colored Museum,'' Mr. Wolfe convened the best-loved icons of black American culture and reduced them to an evanescent heap. ![]() ![]() Like Abraham smashing idols in his father's shop, George C.
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