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SUMMARY:Racial Trauma\, Representations of Blackness\, and Metatheatricali
 ty - Tiziana Morosetti (Goldsmiths)
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DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore representations of Blackness\, racial t
 rauma\, and enslavement in two plays that have attracted controversy\, Dav
 e Harris’s Tambo and Bones (Judith O. Rubin Theater 2022/ Stratford East
  2023 and 2025) and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play (New York Theatre Work
 shop 2018/ Noël Coward Theatre 2024). We will discuss these plays with sp
 ecific reference to their metatheatricality in addressing the legacy of en
 slavement\, stereotypical representations of Blackness\, as well as 19th-c
 entury forms of entertainment. While both plays daringly deconstruct ideas
  about Blackness and capitalise on racialised expectations to provoke a re
 sponse from their audiences\, Slave Play has been particularly successful 
 in bringing Black trauma to the attention of mainstream audiences\, thanks
  especially to its West End run. The talk discusses the implications of th
 is success\, as well as the mixed reception of these plays.\n\nDr Tiziana 
 Morosetti is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths\, Univers
 ity of London\, and a Research Associate with the African Studies Centre\,
  Oxford. She is the editor of Africa on the London Stage (2018) and\, with
  Osita Okagbue\, the Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race (2021)\, and is
  currently co-editing with Lynette Goddard the Cambridge History of Black 
 British Theatre and Performance (forthcoming 2027). She is also the recipi
 ent of a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to work on a proj
 ect entitled ‘The Making of African Theatre: Academics\, Playwrights\, a
 nd Theatre Practitioners at the University of Ibadan\, 1952-1970’.\nSpea
 kers:\nTiziana Morosetti (Goldsmiths)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (Schwarzman Centre for the Humaniti
 es\, Seminar Room 63\, Ground Floor)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
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