Scraps

The Flea’s current season is dedicated to examinations of race, and Geraldine Inoa’s drama kicks it off with a boldly scrappy playwriting debut. The first hour looks at four young adults in Bed-Stuy, a few months after an unarmed friend was killed by the police; the last third takes a sharp tonal swerve into the surreal, superheated nightmare of an eight-year-old boy battered by pain about the future that awaits him. Scraps is structurally wonky and sometimes clichéd, but it’s also exciting: The actors commit hard at intensely close range, and the play, at its best, has the urgent appeal of a passionate new voice screaming to be heard.