Status Updates From Slave Play

I was looking enough to go see this back when it was on Broadway in 2020, holy smokes what a brilliant play, even back then I was desperate to get my hands on the script, but it wasn’t widely available until recently! Having access to Jeremy O Harris’ stage directions throughout this play gives it such incredible meaning to see what the director took and put on the stage from what was written on the paper!

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