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Kaneisha and Jim are a modern-day couple engaged in an alternative type of therapy: Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy. The unusual style of therapy is designed to help black partners regain sexual pleasure with their white partners by understanding how their own racial identities and history play into their sexual relationship. Kaneisha has taken on the role of the slave, while Jim, a British man, plays the white, southern overseer. As the scene opens, Kaneisha is dressed in mid-nineteenth
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START: JIM: KANEISHA!
The hell you doin?
(With an inhalation Kaneisha is up and staring back at Jim—prey before predator. She puts the scarf back on her head, hiding away her hair.)
KANEISHA: Oh lord …
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uh …
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I’s sorry Massa Jim.
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Somethin jus came ova me.
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END: KANEISHA: You don’t think I’m a lazy negress Massa—
I mean, MISTA Jim?
JIM: I think you beautiful Kaneisha.
Look at what you doing to me
Jeremy O. Harris. Slave Play, Theatre Communications Group (electronic edition), 2019. Pp. 19-36.
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