For a few weeks, New Haveners will be able to go downtown and travel to New York City’s 1927 San Juan Hill, where a pair of star-crossed lovers suffer the consequences of heightened tensions between Black Americans and Caribbean immigrants. The portal is Eden, a play written by Steve Carter and directed by Brandon J. Dirden. It opens Thursday night at the Yale Repertory Theatre and runs through Feb. 8. Russell G. Jones, who plays Mr. Joseph Barton, is an award-winning actor with both theater and TV roles under his belt. He joined Babz Rawls Ivy Wednesday for an interview on LoveBabz LoveTalk on WNHH FM.“It’s juicy,” Jones said about the play. ​“It’s salacious in the way that reality TV started.”Mr. Joseph Barton is a Trinidadian ​“striver” and father of four who lives with his family in diverse San Juan Hill — which was razed thanks to urban renewal and was where Lincoln Center is now — in 1920s Manhattan. A Marcus Garvey supporter, Barton arranges for his daughter to marry a man from the West Indies to protect his bloodline.But his daughter, Annetta, has eyes for Eustace, an African American who has come up from the South to stay with his aunt — the Bartons’ neighbor. Naturally, fallout ensues.Click on the video below to watch the full interview with Eden cast member Russell G. Jones on WNHH FM’s LoveBabz LoveTalk with Babz Rawls Ivy.