His characters, many of them queer, often speak past each other. This sense of disconnection is political, he says
with a young, perfectly sculpted black man named Franklin emerging from a swimming pool. His white host, a rich, silver-haired art collector named Andre, looks on lustily and lunges for the younger man’s legs . Later, after the characters become lovers, Andre repeatedly smacks Franklin’s bare buttocks, playfully but not without menace. These are unnerving scenes. In an American theatre, watching a powerful white man hungrily appraise and then slap a naked black body is inescapably fraught.
A co-production of the New Group and the Vineyard Theatre, “Daddy” had its premiere on March 5th. It was written by Jeremy O. Harris, a 29-year-old playwright who has emerged onto America’s theatre scene with the speed and vigour of a geyser. He is swiftly earning a reputation for exploring discomforting ideas about race and sex with humour, intellectual rigour, nods to pop culture and an engaging sense of spectacle.
The timing is auspicious for his brand of provocation. Mr Harris, who is black and gay, asks his audiences—who tend to be older, white and left-leaning—to confront their own complicity in prejudice. In “Daddy”, Franklin, himself an artist, tries to explain to Andre why they are destined to have different reactions to a sculpture by an African-American that deals with slavery and blackness.
Growing up in Martinsville, Virginia, Mr Harris was introduced to the potential of theatre by Shakespeare. “He was a populist,” Mr Harris explains. “He knew at the end of the day our brains get off on all the things that we’re ashamed of.
Mr Harris’s plays are about power and relationships; they hover at the intersection of violence and desire. . It is meant to show “how the simple act of not listening to people without power actually feeds power”. In his script notes for “Daddy”, he writes: “Everybody talks but no one listens. Have fun with that.”"A bigger splash"
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