Friday, May 03, 2019
How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater
The New York Times: They are the talk of the theater world: a generation of black playwrights whose fiercely political and formally inventive works are challenging audiences, critics and the culture at large to think about race, and racism, in new ways.
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For my final project in Foundations of Drama, I was assigned to work on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet. During the weeks I worked on the project I did a lot of extensive reading on the representation of black playwrights and black stories within the industry. Through his Brother/Sister Plays and Moonlight, McCraney has already gained a lot of recognition in the industry for his work. Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jeremy O. Harris, Antoinette Nwandu and Jordan E. Cooper, on the other hand, have not gotten as much recognition yet. That is why I think that this New York Times article featuring them, their views, and their works is incredibly important in our push for representation. Not only do these playwrights work to tell the important stories of “persistent inequities and the legacy of slavery,” but they work to include the injustices occurring in the modern day as well.
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