Pass Over (eBook)

Antoinette Nwandu (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
96 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571361779 (ISBN)

Infos

A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change. Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young men in a world that refuses to see them. Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu received its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2020.

Antoinette Nwandu is a playwright, who also writes for film & TV. Her play Pass Over (LCT3; Steppenwolf) was a NYT Critic's Pick and won a Lucille Lortel Award and a Jeff Award for Best Play. Pass Over had its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London. A filmed version - directed by Spike Lee - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at SXSW, and is streamed on Amazon Prime. Her play Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate premiered at Victory Gardens in 2018, and her play Tuvalu, or The Saddest Song will premiere at The Vineyard Theater during the Spring 2020 season. Antoinette is under commission from The Denver Center, Ars Nova & Audible. Antoinette's writing has won the Whiting Award, the Samuel French Next Step Award, the Cullman Prize, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and spots on the 2016 and 2017 Kilroys lists. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and an Ars Nova Play Group alum, and her work has been developed and supported by The Sundance Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, The Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Page73, PlayPenn, Southern Rep, The Flea, Naked Angels, Fire This Time, and The Movement Theater Company. In film & TV, Antoinette wrote for Season 2 of Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It (Netflix), and is adapting the short story 'Wash Clean the Bones' for Amazon Studios from the collection Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires.

Rezensionen

Powerful scarcely begins to describe the impact of this play by Antoinette Nwandu. It has a devastating force and a poeticism that dazzles.

Textauszug

Act One

A ghetto street. A lamppost. Night.

Two men, Moses and Kitch, are on the block. Both wear dark-colored pants, sagging. Tanks or t-shirts. Trainers, maybe Tims. Black baseball caps, brims crisp, cocked to the side or backwards. They also have one hoodie between them, which they share.

Moses, who is sleeping, wears it now.

Kitch keeps watch.

Then Moses wakes up.

Moses   yo kill me now

Kitch   bang bang

Moses   nigga

Kitch   what’s good

my nigga

Moses   man you know

Kitch   you know

i know

Moses   you know

i know

you know

Kitch   you know

i know

you know

i know

Moses   you know

i know

you know

i know

you know

Kitch   you know

i know

you know

i know

you know

you i –

you know –

you –

shit!

Moses   my nigga

Kitch   shit!

Moses   you –

shit you –

Kitch   fuck you nigga damn

Moses   dat shit be funny tho

Kitch   yeah man it be a’ight

Moses   (mocking) you i –

you know –

you –

shit

Kitch   yo moses

they come at’chu

Moses   da fuck you think

man damn

Kitch   ain’t let em break you tho

i mean

you let em break you moses

Moses   niggaaaaa

who da fuck i be

Kitch   you moses man

you moses

Moses   nigga damn

they bess be glad

i ain’t break them

Kitch   yo dat’s wassup

Moses   ya herd

Moses and Kitch give each other daps.

Kitch   yo moses

dat’s wassup

Moses and Kitch flinch.

A moment. Silence. Stillness.

Then, all clear.

Moses   man

what’chu fixta do today

man damn

Kitch   man

i’on know man

what’chu fixta do

Moses   got plans

you feel me

big ol plans

Kitch   got plans to stand there

stroke yo dick

Moses   man

fuck you man

Kitch   nigga

what kinda plans you got

Moses   got plans to rise up to my full potential

be all i could be

you feel me

Kitch   left

left

left right left

Moses   yo fuck you nigga

dat shit ain’t funny

Kitch   yo moses man

i thought it was

Moses   nigga

man i got plans

to git my ass up off dis block

Kitch   off dis block here

Moses   yeah nigga damn man

i ain’t stutter

Kitch   a’ight nigga damn

Moses   a’ight

Kitch   cept

cept

you gittin up off dis block man

where you goin

Moses   yo what

Kitch   i sed my nigga

you gittin up off dis block

where you gon go

Moses   kitch

Kitch   what

Moses   dat promised land

Kitch   promised land

nigga damn

you mean dat penthouse suite

Moses   yo dat’s the one

Kitch   champagne on ice

Moses   you know it

Kitch   (as an old white lady) hello, room service

i’ll just have two lobster rolls

Moses   das crazy right

mad buttah on dat shit

Kitch   champagne all cold

and shit

Moses   chomp chomp

Kitch   yo caviar man

bess not forget dat caviar

Moses   yo

you like fish eggs

Kitch   naw my nigga

caviar

Moses   nigga

Kitch   what nigga damn

Moses   man caviar is

fish eggs

Kitch   yo what

Moses   yeah nigga damn

tiny ass fish eggs

Kitch   ugh

Moses   dis nigga

Kitch   yo moses man

i ain’t know

Moses   cud write a book wit all da shit

yo ass don’t know

Kitch   prolly be more like ten books

Moses   yeah you right

Kitch   nigga

promised land top ten

go

Moses   nigga

Kitch   come on my nigga

less play

Moses   man

ain’tchu tired

Kitch   jess go

go

Moses   collard greens and pinto beans

Kitch   dat’s two

Moses   nigga don’t play

dat counts as one

Kitch   yo how you figure

Moses   iss one plate uh food

Kitch   one plate uh –

Moses   nigga

Kitch   man

yeah a’ight

Moses   one hot plate

uh collard greens and pinto beans

how reverend missus

usedta make em

Kitch   one

Moses   my brown bunny rabbit

Kitch   two

Moses   my bright red superman kite

Kitch   three

Moses   drawer full uh clean socks

Kitch   okay see

now dat’s a good one

fo

Moses   my brotha here wit me

back from da dead

Kitch   five

Moses   yo moms here too

Kitch   six

Moses   soft sheets

i’m sleepin on em good

Kitch   seven

Moses   my woman next to me

she sleepin on em too

Kitch   since when you got a...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• ISBN-13: 9780571361779 / 9780571361779