‘The Black Wolfe Tone’: One man’s deeply felt journey into mental illness

‘The Black Wolfe Tone’: One man’s deeply felt journey into mental illness

I recently experienced a very captivating production of “The Black Wolfe Tone,” playing at the Irish Rep’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre on W. 22nd Street. The one-man show, written by and starring Kwaku Fortune, is an amazing and deeply personal story about his journey with bi-polar mental illness and growing up a Black man in Ireland. Having a Black mother and a white father, he often experienced discrimination from white Irish people who di…