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Why Jeremy O. Harris Had A Special Performance Of His ‘Slave Play’ For A Black Audience

THEATRE Posted: November 7, 2019 12:03 pm

“That was me being able to look certain people in the face and say: ‘You’re wrong.’ So many people have dictated what my intentions were with Slave Play. One of the things they’ve always articulated is that I wrote Slave Play for white people and that it’s not written for a black audience. That’s so bizarre to me. … It was amazing to sit in a 99.9% black audience and see that 99.9% of the play worked. And the parts that exhilarated the audience on other nights still exhilarated the audience that night.” – The Guardian

THEATRE Published: 11.06.19, sj

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 11.06.19, sj

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