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re: "Slave Play" playwright's 25-Tweet Thread
Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:08 pm EST 12/29/18
In reply to: re: "Slave Play" playwright's 25-Tweet Thread - FasterTheater 01:53 pm EST 12/29/18

For me, the fact that NYTW produced it is the proof that the play is far more well-behaved and unexplosive than he thinks it is. He's very much an institutional playwright, and the institution has embraced him fully.
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re: "Slave Play" playwright's 25-Tweet Thread
Posted by: Chazwaza 06:26 pm EST 01/02/19
In reply to: re: "Slave Play" playwright's 25-Tweet Thread - Singapore/Fling 10:08 pm EST 12/29/18

This is fully by design. As smart and talented as he is, in many ways he is the emperor's new clothes. And this is from someone who thought Slave Play was very worthwhile... in fact my main issues with it were that it didn't break through to much outside of the concept, beyond the subject matter it didn't stay with me very long, and an entire HALF of the play is some of the least theatrical theatre I've seen in a long time within a play that is supposedly incredible theater. The entire section of them sitting and discussing what we just saw... what a bafflingly lazy way to write a play with such an interesting subject matter.
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