Playwriting team Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton take on some very au courant questions and more in their quick\u002Dpaced, brilliantly funny and lacerating new play, Redbone Coonhound, getting its premiere in a sensational Arts Club production
How much is too much? To what extent does language matter? Are we overly sensitive to issues of race and gender, privilege and cultural appropriation? Or are we not sensitive enough? And who is “we” in those sentences?
Like Lavoie and Newton, the play’s central characters are an interracial couple, Marissa and her Black husband, Mike . One day they run into a white couple walking their dog. When they learn that the breed is called Redbone Coonhound, Mike goes berserk. He can’t believe that such a name, containing two racial slurs, as he explains, can just be taken for granted.Article content
Marissa and Mike’s own relationship is fraught. He accuses her of racial insensitivity and she responds, at first with comic sarcasm, noting how blind he is to gender inequality. She also points out the absurdity of his painting his own wife with the “all white people” brush.friends Aisha and Gerald the cop come to visit, along with white Jordan .and goofy Jordan seems to confirm their notions of privileged white blindness.
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