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Jeremy O. Harris: ‘Slave Play’

The Treatment

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A Day of Absence by Douglas Turner Ward

i wanted to make something that i would not feel palatable to any one, but actually might be like a gauntlet until i then rip the part identity politics for an hour. I'm wondering how much of this is you saying, as you sat down to write it, that you've got to try to deal with the absurdity again. And i just wondered if the sur reality was where you started, or emotional course, when you were writing the play. Theter reality is absolutely what i started with. But so, like, in my brain, when i think about the work that really defines me, it's like marita bonner,. Like douglas turner ward and and adj

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