I honestly just heard of this last night because people were saying it was robbed at the Tony's.
So I had to do some research....
Reckoning with Slave Play, the most controversial show on Broadway
The “slave play” that incites the events of Harris’s thoroughly challenging drama takes the form of a psychology experiment, in which three interracial couples are tasked with role-playing white-black, master-slave relationships as a way to make sense of how their racial identities factor into their sex and personal lives. While the audience is first introduced to the characters in mid-19th century garb and with Southern accents of varying quality, contemporary details peek through to clarify that what we are watching is instead a modern-day performance of slave-master dynamics in the Civil War-era American South, conducted by a therapy group comprised of mixed-race couples, in service of two grad students’ thesis project.
This sounds exactly like the opposite of something I would want to watch. It sounds like it exists to promote an agenda. But I’m just going off a synopsis.. what y'all think. Am i just a hard headed male? or Is this something me and the misses need to check out? Do i need to be more open minded?
So I had to do some research....
Reckoning with Slave Play, the most controversial show on Broadway
The “slave play” that incites the events of Harris’s thoroughly challenging drama takes the form of a psychology experiment, in which three interracial couples are tasked with role-playing white-black, master-slave relationships as a way to make sense of how their racial identities factor into their sex and personal lives. While the audience is first introduced to the characters in mid-19th century garb and with Southern accents of varying quality, contemporary details peek through to clarify that what we are watching is instead a modern-day performance of slave-master dynamics in the Civil War-era American South, conducted by a therapy group comprised of mixed-race couples, in service of two grad students’ thesis project.
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