SLAVE PLAY 2021 Previews — Page 4

troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."

Same. Perhaps it's the title of the show.

troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."

As a minority member myself, "odd yet thrilling" is hardly the way minorities generally feel about their experience. It sounds super-white. I wonder if the guy who wrote Black Like Me felt it "odd yet thrilling" to have the experiences he had.

joevitus said: "troynow said: "Interesting…. Thoughts of a Colored Man, both times I have seen the show is 95% Black. I found that odd and yet thrilling to be the minority. I wonder what the difference is."

As a minority member myself, "odd yet thrilling" is hardly the way minorities generally feel about their experience. It sounds super-white. I wonder if the guy who wrote Black Like Me felt it "odd yet thrilling" to have the experiences he had."

The way I read troynow's message, he was talking about his experience as a member of the audience were most of the playgoers were white. To him, it was different when most of the audience was black. By the way, what minority are you?

I got my ticket around 3pm the day of the performance. (It was in my spam, FWIW.) I was 5th row center orchestra.

Did anyone go to closing today?



This second run seemed so muted and quiet, even on here people just kind of stopped talking about it



is it true they were playing to mostly empty houses, I saw people connected to the show offering comps all the time

Dud of a show.

RippedMan said: "Coming to LA. So it's a skip? Is the production cool?"

I see tickets at the Taper start at $35. To me, that's as much as one should spend on it.

Call_me_jorge said: "What happened to Jeremy pulling the rights for the LA production?"

Nothing but a cheap publicity stunt.

LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.

I just double checked and I paid $39 before fees to see it in December. The usher moved me to a better seat and I still considered cutting my losses and walking out during the interminably boring second act.

kwoc91 said: "LOL thank you for the laugh, Sutton.

JSquared2 said: "Second act? Did they add an intermission for the Broadway relaunch? There wasn't one in the original run."

The play itself is 3 acts, presented without an intermission. Act 2 is the group therapy.

RippedMan - the production itself is really nothing to write home about. The sets are interesting in the beginning but then lose their luster once the show settles in. It's like the rest of the show in that it thinks it's saying much more than it really is.

In my opinion it’s smoke and mirrors with literal mirrors. Touted as something much more important and impactful than I found it to be. It touches on race in a very superficial, textbook manner. Once you get over the interesting set and the “reveal” early on, I found it very dull. The opening and the last few moments of the show were better than the body of the show.


It absolutely played like a senior project and a first play. Very heavy handed and provocative for the obvious reasons of drawing attention. The numbers don’t lie. Very little interest in the show. There was no reason to revive it.