Even his White shrink is startled by the idea that he’d have such thoughts. He tells us why he’s frustrated with what being “a Black playwright” means to White people. On walks BJJ, adorned in nothing but his undergarments. Like Lee with Bamboozled, Jacobs-Jenkins is all too eager to pat himself on the back for An Octoroon “daring” to show blackface in a contemporary setting, but doesn’t have enough awareness to fully explore its modern equivalents.Īnd that’s too bad, because the few-and-far-between moments when the play does just that, it shows sparks of pure brilliance. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s still relevant: the reason I love Boondocks creator Aaron MacGruder’s infamous scathing review (and subsequent follow-up comments) of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled is because MacGruder knows that it isn’t enough to simply show that you’ve heard of a topic if you’re going to say something about it you have to say something important. That’s what Jacobs-Jenkins promises to do with An Octoroon, his “post-modern” take on Boucicault’s 1859 play The Octoroon, but the contemporary playwright (a Black man) is unable to fulfill his part of the bargain. This prologue hints at a production we audience members will never see: one that we were promised but never got one that turns the damaging practices Vaudevillian blackface and cultural appropriate on their heads as it takes them to task one that’s capable of taking a “classic” work – a work supposedly sympathetic toward an oppressed people – viewing it through a contemporary lens, and revealing its inherent hypocrisies. This scene is soon followed by one of Irish playwright Dion Boucicault at the table applying redface as Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” plays. As a Black man myself, I’ve always gotten a wonderfully Schadenfreude-esque glee from watching supposedly-enlightened White people squirm when suddenly confronted by art based on Black rage.
Granted, there was at least one moment when the majority of the audience was shocked: it was near the beginning, when BJJ (avatar of playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, played by Lance Gardner) sits at a make-up table to apply “whiteface” (and I mean really white) as Menace Clan’s “Kill Whitey” blasts over the theatre speakers. Not to see if they were shocked, not to see if they were angry, but to see if anyone else was as bored as I was. What was different this time was that during the performance I found myself scanning the faces of the audience for reactions to the spectacle we were watching. It’s something I’m quite used to, so I didn’t dwell on it, no matter how much it disappoints me. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to LoveĪs I took my seat in Berkeley Rep’s Peet’s Stage, the first thing I noticed was that I was only one-of-a-handful of Black faces in the audience. “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Phillips also appeared in a very popular game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in 2004.By CharlesAndHisTypewriter on Sunday, 2 July, 2017
AFI BIJOU ACTRESS SERIES
Bijou Phillips Careerīijou Phillips has appeared in many movies given below:Ģ005 Pancho’s Pizza, Havoc, Venom, and The OutsiderĢ007 Spin, The Wizard of Gore, Hostel: Part II, and What We Do Is SecretĢ008 Chelsea on the Rocks, The Art of Travel, Choke, and Dark StreetsĢ009 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, Wake, Made for Each Other, The Heart Is a Drum Machine Herself Documentary, The Bridge to Nowhere, and It’s Aliveīijou Phillips has appeared in many television series given below:Ģ006 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Totally Awesome They have a daughter named Fianna Francis Masterson ( Born on 14 February 2014 ).īijou Phillips‘s height is 5 feet 6 inches and her weight is 50 kg. Bijou and her husband both are Scientologists.
They met first time in Las Vegas during a poker tournament. This couple got engaged in March 2009 and got married in a private castle in Ireland.
Phillips’s religion is not known.īijou is married and her husband’s name is Danny Masterson. She dropped the school at the age of 14 years old.īijou Phillips is 41 years old. Phillips’s school details are not added yet.
AFI BIJOU ACTRESS FULL
Phillips’s full name is Bijou Lilly Phillips Masterson as known as Bijou Phillips.
Bijou Phillips Wiki, Biographyīijou Phillips was born on 1 April 1980 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Bijou Phillips holds Nationality nationality. Bijou Phillips’s ethnicity is mixed ( English-Irish ).
0 kommentar(er)
