Storytelling looms large in “The Last Tiger in Haiti,” the latest world premiere from Berkeley Rep. The play’s first lines center on it.
[...] just pages later, she begs Max (Andy Lucien), an older-brother figure, not to depart from their shack in Port-au-Prince with this plea: “But you’re going to teach me how to tell stories.”
Max is leaving because, unlike the other restavek children in their encampment, he can; he’s aged out the of indentured servitude into which his impoverished parents placed him.
In Jeff Augustin’s play, which Joshua Kahan Brody directs, storytelling takes on new meaning in the second act, when Rose and Max meet again 15 years later.
