| re: NYT: The Great Work Continues: or not ... |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:47 pm EDT 06/01/18 |
| In reply to: re: NYT: The Great Work Continues: or not ... - NewtonUK 05:42 am EDT 06/01/18 |
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There is much good to be said for Chad Deity. It gleefully pushes the boundaries of what theater can do and who it is made for. It is a more honest reflection of American culture than most of what gets produced in New York. It offers a bold, viscerally exciting examination of very difficult questions about how America chooses to classify and contain people of color. It's a serious play that doesn't take itself seriously, and so it's a lot of fun while having much more to say than any number of talky, issue-driven plays.
As for your larger framing about what gets produced globally, I think we have to be careful about presuming that the only reason a play doesn't travel is because of quality. Many plays are culturally specific in ways that make them less appealing to foreign audiences. |
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