Status Updates From Slave Play

oh?

[Complete quotes would be spoilers, but I've definitely had to look up certain word definitions along the way:
anhedonia = is the inability to feel pleasure, a common symptom of depression and other mental health disorders.
alexithymia = also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, sourcing, and describing one's emotions.]

Theatre seen and read. Seeing this weekend at Canadian Stage in Toronto.
https://www.canadianstage.com/pages/s...

'KANEISHA

[...]

The only black girl
and I would wear the same uniform
to every plantation field trip

my mama would put these little
pink and blue ribbons in my hair
on my pigtailed cornrows
and I’d wear this white dress
and she’d say,
“You wear this with your head held high today
because you want to look proud
for your elders...'

"KANEISHA

(To Jim) There’s no way
now I can unknow
as you wipe your
dick
across my lips
that when your people landed on this land
a third of the indigenous population of the entire continent
died of disease.
Not disease you actively gave them.
Your mere presence was biological warfare.
VIRUS.
You’re a virus.
You’re the virus.
That’s why I look at you as though
you are infected."

Omg

"GARY

For almost a decade I’ve given myself over
to someone who doesn’t dignify me
who acts like he’s the prize
and I’m the lucky recipient.
No motherfucker I’m the prize.
Always have been, always will be.
Somehow I forgot that.
Or I never knew that."

Go off, Gary!!

"TEÁ

The black or brown subject
born under the constant psychological warfare
of the white supremacist, heteropatriarchal,
capitalist system
has been stricken
with disorders that have gone unrecognized
because there is no racial
or social lens
on the psyche in our current deeply
conservative practice of psychology and psychoanalysis."

She's not wrong 🤷🏽‍♀️

'JIM
[...]
This was not hot.
You made me call my wife who I love
a “negress”
a …
She made me call her a “negress.”
And that’s—
She’s my queen.

KANEISHA
(To herself) Oh god.'

Lmao

"DUSTIN
[...]
You had me doing manual labor
for two hours
before you even looked at me.
Fuck you.
You were crying / as you came.

GARY
/ You wanted to be an indentured servant didn’t you?"

Goddamn lol

"fuck
fuck
are you gonna whip me if I come Massa Jim?
Are you gonna whip me?
For being a nasty negress?
For being your disgusting little bed wench?
Huh?
Huh?"

Oh lord

([...] Gary lifts up his well-booted foot and places it on Dustin’s mouth and Dustin begins to clean his boot with his tongue. Gary shivers and shakes writhing ever so slightly as Dustin gets more and more into it, his hands by his side, his face and tongue doing all the work as Gary stands in what can best be described as “The Captain Morgan.”)

Good lord

'DUSTIN
Your name is Gary.
That’s pretty white too don’tcha think?

GARY
It’s Nigger Gary.
My name is Nigger Gary.

DUSTIN
Alright, “Nigger Gary” …
but the only “nigger” thang about your name
is the title before Gary.
Otherwise you’d just sound like any ol’ white overseer.'

🥴🥴🥴

"That’s why mama always said if they’re blacker than the night
and can’t count to ten
without gruntin like a gorilla
then you don’t let em on your land.
The gorilla niggas are the ones who cast the spells.
Everybody knows that."

W ha t

"Anyway,
mulattoes aint the ones with magic.
Any magic a mulatto has was spent on their flesh.
Obviously.
That Africa voodoo is all over them real black uns,
The ones straight from Africa."

What

"([...] Her bum is still moving in a sort of twerk en retard. Jim is barely hiding his stares or his tumescence.)

I see
you’re
you’re
you’re you’re jigabooing again."

Twerk en retard? ? Jigabooing??

'Is it still sitting in your mouth
all empty
and disgusting?
All “white”?

(Kaneisha eats.)

You don’t like the way white tastes too much huh?'

What is happening 😭😭