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START: JIM: KANEISHA! The hell you do...

Slave Play

Kaneisha Jim

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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 …
…
uh …
…
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I’s sorry Massa Jim.
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…
Somethin jus came ova me.
[... …]
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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