The NI¿¿ER LOVERS
By Marc Anthony Thompson, Directed by the playwright with Sean San José
May 3, 2023 – May 28, 2023 | Wednesdays through Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 3pm
Marc Anthony Thompson is a world renowned composer, songwriter, musician, performer- who has spent the past two decades creating new performance pieces for the stage with the great Roger Guenveur Smith. In his first full fledged play, Marc Anthony takes us into an inspired true story of a couple who miraculously escaped from chattel slavery from a plantation in Georgia to freedom in Boston. A provocation in Black creation, from its brazen title to the intentional inversion of minstrelsy, this genre-shattering piece will layer original music, movement, and film and engage us in the horror and humor of history masterfully retold.
CONTENT WARNING
Check your (whyte) fragility at the door!
This show contains strong language (have you seen the title?) depictions of violence, rape, references to slavery, loud noises, singing, loud music, loud laughs, pregnancy, dildos, masturbation, gunshots, the use of every word you're not supposed to say and more; all the things you see on TV everyday.
The Magic Theatre invites you to think before using the word in the title of the show, especially if you are of a whiter complexion. It’s a word that means different things to different people and can elicit feelings of trauma, anxiety, violence, and oppression, as well as camaraderie, identity and intimacy. Wait, which word are you thinking of?
By the way, no, the primarily non black staff at the Magic do not call the play by its full title.
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