{"id":123230,"date":"2018-03-21T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=123230"},"modified":"2018-03-21T19:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:30:34","slug":"2018-whiting-awards-antoinette-nwandu-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/2018-whiting-awards-antoinette-nwandu-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoinette Nwandu, Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3168\" height=\"2807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu.jpg 3168w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/antoinettenwandu-1024x907.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette Nwandu, whose\u00a0\u201cblistering interrogations of race, power, and violence range from symbolic to highly naturalistic works,\u201d is a playwright based in New York. In June last year, Steppenwolf presented the world premiere of her play\u00a0<em>Pass Over<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>a mashup of the book of Exodus and Beckett\u2019s\u00a0<em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>\u00a0that sparked a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2017\/06\/27\/when-critics-dont-like-their-reflection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national conversation<\/a>\u00a0about bias in the theater community. Her play\u00a0<em>Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate\u00a0<\/em>premiered at Victory Gardens Theater in February this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>An excerpt from<\/em>\u00a0Pass Over<em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: This play should NOT have<br \/>\nan intermission. If Moses and Kitch cannot leave, neither can you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>man<br \/>\nwhat\u2019chu fixta do today<br \/>\nman damn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>man<br \/>\ni\u2019on know man<br \/>\nwhat\u2019chu fixta do\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>got plans<br \/>\nyou feel me<br \/>\nbig ol plans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>got plans to stand there<br \/>\nstroke yo dick<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>man<br \/>\nfuck you man<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>nigga<br \/>\nwhat kinda plans you got<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>got plans to rise up to my full potential be all i could be<br \/>\nyou feel me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>left<br \/>\nleft<br \/>\nleft right left<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo fuck you nigga<br \/>\ndat shit ain\u2019t funny<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>yo moses man<br \/>\ni thought it was<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>niGGa<br \/>\nman i got plans<br \/>\nto git my ass up off dis block<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>off dis block here<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yeah nigga damn man<br \/>\ni ain\u2019t stutter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>a\u2019ight nigga damn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>a\u2019ight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>cept<br \/>\ncept<br \/>\nyou gittin up off dis block man where you goin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo what<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>i sed my nigga<br \/>\nyou gittin up off dis block<br \/>\nwhere you gon go<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">kitch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>what<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>dat promised land<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>niGGa<br \/>\npromised land top ten<br \/>\ngo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>nigga<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>come on my nigga<br \/>\nless play<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>man<br \/>\nain\u2019tchu tired<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>jess go<br \/>\ngo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>collard greens and pinto beans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>dats two<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>nigga don\u2019t play<br \/>\ndat counts as one<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>yo how you figure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>iss one plate uh food<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>one plate uh\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>nigga<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>man<br \/>\nyeah a\u2019ight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>one hot plate<br \/>\nof collard greens &amp; pinto beans<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>one<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>brown bunnies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>two<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>my bright red superman kite<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>three<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>drawer full uh clean socks<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>okay see<br \/>\nnow dats a good one<br \/>\nfo<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>my brotha here wit me<br \/>\nback from da dead<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>five<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo moms here too<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>six<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>soft sheets<br \/>\ni\u2019m sleepin on em good<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>seven<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>my woman next to me<br \/>\nshe sleepin on em too<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>since when you got a woman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>but\u2019chu sed\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>iss da promised land nigga<br \/>\nif i wanna woman<br \/>\nimma have me a woman<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>okay nigga damn<br \/>\njess askin if you got candidates<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>man i ain\u2019t met her yet shit<br \/>\nbut dats a\u2019ight<br \/>\ni\u2019ll know her when i see her man<br \/>\nbess believe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>yo moses<br \/>\ndats deep<br \/>\ni\u2019ll. know. her. when. i. see. her.<br \/>\nyeah<br \/>\nyeah i guess i knew rochelle<br \/>\nwas fixta be mine first time i<br \/>\nseent her too<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>she ain\u2019tchors kitch<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>i know<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo do you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>we git up off dis block<br \/>\nshe fixta be mine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>ya<br \/>\nfixta be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES and KITCH breathe together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>a\u2019ight man<br \/>\nyou got\u2019cho<br \/>\neight<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>world peace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>niGGa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>jess playin<br \/>\nman lemme see<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>maaaaaan<br \/>\nhow da fuck you spect<br \/>\nwe fixta git up off dis block<br \/>\npass ovuh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo kitch man<br \/>\nfirst of all i ain\u2019t sed \u201cwe\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>da fuck you mean by dat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>i mean yo ass ain\u2019t comin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>what<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>you ain\u2019t invited<br \/>\nnigga damn<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>yo moses<br \/>\ndat\u2019s fucked up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOSES<\/p>\n<p>yo<br \/>\nhow you figure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">KITCH<\/p>\n<p>cuz my nigga damn man<br \/>\nyou my nigga<br \/>\nyou got plans<br \/>\nmean i got plans right wit\u2019chu<br \/>\nmoses<br \/>\nmoses<br \/>\ni got plans right wit\u2019chu right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Antoinette Nwandu, whose\u00a0\u201cblistering interrogations of race, power, and violence range from symbolic to highly naturalistic works,\u201d is a playwright based in New York. In June last year, Steppenwolf presented the world premiere of her play\u00a0Pass Over,\u00a0a mashup of the book of Exodus and Beckett\u2019s\u00a0Waiting for Godot\u00a0that sparked a\u00a0national conversation\u00a0about bias in the theater community. 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