{"id":344929,"date":"2021-09-27T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/slave-play-loses-best-play-award\/"},"modified":"2021-09-27T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T05:40:49","slug":"slave-play-loses-best-play-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/slave-play-loses-best-play-award\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Slave Play&#8217; loses best play award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Slave Play&#8217; loses best play award<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-riedel.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Riedel\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-riedel.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-riedel.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There is going to be fury on Broadway tomorrow, and a lot of sighing, privately, from the people who run the real show.<\/p>\n<p>The Great White Way has been under fire since Black Lives Matter for its supposed lack of diversity. There have been diversity initiatives, diversity committees and a great deal of \u201csoul searching\u201d about how to make the theater more welcoming to minorities.<\/p>\n<p>And yet for all of that, the shock at the Tony Awards Sunday night was that \u201cThe Inheritance,\u201d a play about gay men (of all ethnicities) beat out \u201cSlave Play,\u201d Jeremy O. Harris\u2019 sexually charged, explosive play about the fundamental racism of America.<\/p>\n<p>With 12 nominations, \u201cSlave Play\u201d was thought to be the favorite. The New York Times loved it, as it does everything that reminds us of how racist America is supposed to be. Every time Jeremy O. Harris bought a new outfit, the Times wrote all about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But behind the scenes, Broadway people were annoyed. To accuse them of being racist, exclusive and elitist gnawed at them. The theater has been diverse and welcoming of everybody since its beginning. The Greeks started it, and most of them were bisexual. Shakespeare wrote sonnets to men and women. Joe P<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> created free Shakespeare in the Park so that every New Yorker, black, white, Hispanic, could be touched by the beauty of Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19586339\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19586339\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"John Legend and the cast of &quot;Ain't Too Proud&quot;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>John Legend performs with the cast of \u201cAin\u2019t Too Proud\u201d onstage during the Tony Awards.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joe Papp was also the first champion of non-traditional casting. He cast whites, blacks, and Hispanics in Shakespeare despite the bricks thrown at him by critics who thought only white actors could do those plays.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Lin Manuel-Miranda\" class=\"wp-image-19586347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the Tony Awards.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>And when young men were dying of AIDS in New York City in the early 1980s, the only place that stepped up to help them was the theater. The theater created Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS to help people who were shunned by their families, who had no money, who would have died alone. Television and Hollywood pretended \u201cgay\u201d people did not exist at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway took care of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And before there was the \u201cgreat\u201d Jeremy O. Harris, there was a playwright called August Wilson, who wrote about the black experience in America. \u201cFences,\u201d \u201cThe Piano Lesson,\u201d \u201cSeven Guitars.\u201d All of them were produced on Broadway. Not in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, not on TV, but in the theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Annaleigh Ashford and  Jake Gyllenhaal\" class=\"wp-image-19586356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Annaleigh Ashford and  Jake Gyllenhaal, who was nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his work in \u201cSea Wall \/ A Life.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m glad Broadway celebrated its diversity last night. But the best moment was when the great Jennifer Holiday sang, \u201cAnd I Am Telling You, I\u2019m Not Going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s from \u201cDreamgirls,\u201d as you know. Written by a couple of white guys, one of whom died of AIDS, directed by Michael Bennett, who died of AIDS, and performed by a diverse cast in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell me Broadway is behind the times.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"David Byrne\" class=\"wp-image-19586365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/tonys-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>David Byrne performs a song from \u201cAmerican Utopia\u201d onstage at the Tony Awards.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Great White Way has been under fire since Black Lives Matter for its supposed lack of diversity. 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