REVIEW: Chester Theatre Company's 'The Light' moves at a steady, temperate rhythm and emotional pitch

Kala Ross and Kayode Soyemi in a scene from "The Light" at Chester Theatre Company.

CHESTER — What begins as a light-filled celebratory evening for a Black couple in Chicago turns into something darker over the course of an October evening in 2018 in Loy A. Webb’s provocative “The Light” at Chester Theatre Company.

The setting is the Hyde Park condo of Genesis (Kala Ross in a frequently too underplayed performance), an accomplished award-winning principal of a charter school for Black children.

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Jeffrey Borak is The Eagle's theater critic.