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Gary and Dustin 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. Dustin has taken on the role of the white indentured servant, while Gary plays the black slave in charge of him. Tensions quickly mount as Gary throws himself into
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START: GARY: Boy!
Aint resting time yet.
DUSTIN: Oh,
I was just tired so I sat down for a second.
I’ll get back to it lickety-split.
GARY: Lickety-split was before, boy.
Getcha ass up now, I said!
[... …]
END: GARY: I can’t read so I can’t look it up in a book
but what I seem to be understanding is that INDENTURED
SERVANT IS DEFINED AS AN INEFFECTUAL,
UNINTELLIGIBLE WHITE!
DOES THAT SOUND BOUT RIGHT BOOT DUSTIN?
YOU COM / PREHEND—
(“Multi-Love” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra begins to play, stopping Gary mid-speech. Gary looks up, angry and annoyed, before scoffing. Suddenly, with a scream, Dustin is up and tackling Gary [ideally when the percussion hits].
Jeremy O. Harris. Slave Play, Theatre Communications Group (electronic edition), 2019. Pp. 53-59.
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