Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play by Ilka Saal, Jade Thomas

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Five Ways to Stretch Theatrical Space on Contemporary American Stages (US) by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…A third trend reframes and disrupts theatrical space, in palimpsestic and explosive ways (Lucas Hnath, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, Aleshea Harris), and a fourth further overturns this space in politically-charged, shocking reversals which threaten the audience’s comfort (Jeremy O. Harris, Young Jean Lee, Jackie Sibblies Drury). …”
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Music and Queered Temporality in Slave Play by Imogen Wilson

“…I extract case studies from Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play (2019), a recent Broadway production which explores the impact in contemporary America of inherited trauma from slavery, by interrogating the sexual power imbalances within three interracial couples. …”
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