Terry Guest’s aching, funny, and sometimes quite scary Oak , now in a local premiere at Raven Theatre under the direction of Mikael Burke, might hit a little too close to home with ICE out on our streets kidnapping adults and children. But that’s probably all the more reason to make time for it, especially if you’re looking for something for the scary season with a little social commentary meat on its bones.

Set in a small rural town in Georgia, where “snatching season” means that a certain number of kids disappear every year (with the white ones getting most of the media attention, of course), Guest’s play boldly plants its flag between the surreal and the all-too-real. The prologue, delivered by teenager Pickle (Jazzy Rush), tells the story of an enslaved woman, Odella, who disappea

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