`Om' spins stories with humor, insight
In Mwalim's lively stage play, the risible "Om," three well seasoned members of the DEDA Society initiate a younger man into the company of those who appreciate the wisdom in black people's humor.
Ostensibly gathered to play cards and drink beer around a kitchen table, a Saturday night ritual of sorts, the older men, who are the didactic delineators of deep stuff, revel in these get togethers as an opportunity to strut their hard gained knowledge.
Meanwhile, officers of the law lurk on the fringes of their lives convinced that a person of color is surely guilty of some kind of potential mayhem, now or later. Their racist …
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