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Outdoors, with a thrust stage, Little Island’s theater is subject to the elements and open to onlookers, who can watch performances, for free, from the winding paths of the park.

With its high wooden beams, Christopher and Justin Swader’s appealing single set recalls both a Western hunting lodge and an Elizabethan thrust stage.

A cast of eight performs the plays — all set in 1920s Harlem, and snazzily costumed by Jevyn Nelms in tiered fringe skirts and raining pearls — on the Metropolitan’s tiny thrust stage.

Despite that, its long thrust stage was much beloved, at least by actors, bringing them uncommonly close to audiences.

But other moments feel hurt by poor pacing and some awkward staging whenever the full cast is squeezed onto Taproot’s thrust stage.