Teyonnah Paris stars in "Slave Play"

[ThrobbingHood]

Genuinely speechless.

 

[Hey_zeus]

Bout to unfollow her on ig.

 

[Fillerguy]

She was the chosen one though

 

[killacal]

The Bedwench Monologues.

I know identifying black is still new to you but you're the only one joking in this thread

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Sadly, they’ve set out what they’ve accomplished to do... get us talking about it. We live in the shock jock era. It’s all about getting views and clicks. There really is no such thing as bad publicity when tomfoolery is rewarded with attention.

 

[Caprisun]

 

[newworldafro]

Does every young white actress play at least one role as the wife/girlfriend/sexual interest of a black man on the screen?

 

[OG Talk]

Every negative stereotype about team #intersectionality on full display



It’s so blatant and ridiculous it almost seems like a parody created by a hotep

 

[concise]

 

[Eternally Jaded]

I'm deadass pissed off by this.

Disgusted by any willing to act in this triferry.

My stomach rolling at the sight of this hardboiled zestbag director who's jerking himself off with this ish.

And for the record, i liked Teyonnah in Survivor's Remorse but she always gave off suburban wenchish energy.

Same thing with Tika Sumpter.

Pretty as hell but the energy doesn't lie brehs.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

To add on, the agenda continues people.

To the guy referencing psyops.... I def agree.

 

[im_sleep]

Okay -- I thought you meant going "mgtow", because that's a common reaction...

Naw I don’t rock with any of that bullshyt. Let me put it like this, as long as us Black men occupy the ass end of society, things like this play will continue to be common place, and there will be plenty of takers amongst our own who will enthusiastically whore themselves for the dominant group, men and women alike.

Stuff like this highlights the fact that the vast majority of these entertainers, athletes, public figures, etc. that too many of us put on a pedestal will never fully have our best interest in mind and are put in place to lull us to sleep as distractors. Social media is the biggest tool IMO. Puts you up close and personal with the lives of the 1%, as if you’re friends with them and a part of the in-crowd. Meanwhile your real life is a bill away from being in shambles, but you continue to drown away into the lives of those who you’ve been fed to believe is within arms reach.

That’s what I’m getting at with the off the grid comment. I want no parts of this shyt, all of it might as well be the Matrix as far as I’m concerned.

 

[EndDomination]

is this a better play than sugar in our wounds, the one about 2 gay slaves!?

This was just about gay slaves
It didn't involve pure, uncut, shuck-n-jive c00nery that mixed violence with white male power fantasies.

 

[Soundbwoy]

She's so pretty but when you look her up in interviews she seems like she on that Shea Butter, theroot.com bullshyt. I been looking at her funny for a while

I gave her the benefit of doubt but it’s over, the line has been drawn and she chose her side

 

[Cadillac]

Mr. Harris does not squander the satirical opportunities this setup offers. Words like “positionality,” “minoritarian” and “heteropatriarchal” get quite a workout as Ms. La Tour and Ms. Lucio mine characters whose intelligence has been co-opted by cant. And though some of this material could use pruning, Mr. O’Hara proves the perfect collaborator in staging it, playing the comedy so bright and dense that you don’t have the bandwidth to grow bored. Nor do you notice, until you’re too far along, that comedy is not all it is.


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“Slave Play” asks a lot of the audience, too — but let me speak just of myself. It’s hard for a critic to heed what seems to be its general instruction, at least to white people, to shut up for once and listen. If you are in the reviewing trade, you wonder whether that’s just a feint at foiling criticism. So be it.



Seems like all the white reviewers are eating this up. I almost want to see a review from an actual black person, but I'm pretty sure what kind would be interested in the source material in the first place.
Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’


SLAVE PLAY is the recipient of the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences and the 2018 Paula Vogel Award.


SLAVE PLAY at New York Theatre Workshop begins 11/19!

Jeremy O. Harris Named 11th Recipient of Paula Vogel Playwriting Award | Playbill


Already winning awards just for writing this.

Seems like she got in this to be in something critical and popular (among whites)

Either way it's fukk her for mocking what the ancestors went through