“Bootycandy” is the name of Woolly Mammoth’s final presentation in a season the company has called a “striptease of your subconscious.” Written and directed by Robert O’Hara, “Bootycandy” is a string of 10 brief, interconnected plays that reference the process of growing up black and gay in contemporary American society. Taken together, the playlets of “Bootycandy” are sometimes funny, sometimes serious and sometimes outrageous. But at all times they reveal a tremendous amount of acting talent in the cast of five: Jessica Frances Dukes, Phillip James Brannon, Laiona Michelle, Lance Coadie Williams and Sean Meehan.

These actors tackle a variety of roles, sometimes having a presence in two unrelated plays. One character is met before she is born as her mother vigorously defends the name she gave her. In a later scene, a grown woman of the same name is seen at her noncommitment ceremony, in which she and her ex-partner break their vows. No connection, other than the name, is given.