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It premiered at <a href="/wiki/The_Public_Theater" title="The Public Theater">The Public Theater</a> in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Jewish_Chronicle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The central characters are two <a href="/wiki/Woke" title="Woke">woke</a> interracial couples, good friends since college.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Daily_Telegraph_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Leo, a black artist and insomniac.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Daily_Telegraph_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has tried a <a href="/wiki/White_noise_machine" title="White noise machine">white noise machine</a> to help him sleep,<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_Yorker-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and describes himself as "the fractured and angry and edgy black visual artist."<sup id="cite_ref-Variety_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Variety-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Dawn, a white liberal lawyer.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Jewish_Chronicle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Something of a "<a href="/wiki/White_saviour" class="mw-redirect" title="White saviour">white saviour</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-i_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ralph, a white and wealthy writer.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Misha, the black host of the YouTube show <i>Ask a Black.</i><sup id="cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Jewish_Chronicle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Leo, out walking one night, is assaulted by police. To regain a sense of safety, he asks his friend Ralph to buy him as a slave for forty days, positing that he will be safer as a white man's property. Ralph, initially terrified of being white, male and straight, agrees. Their new relationship corrupts Ralph and releases his inner "whitey", and he joins a club exclusively for whites.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Independent_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Independent-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the second act, Ralph makes Leo wear a slave collar.<sup id="cite_ref-Variety_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Variety-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_Yorker-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Productions">Productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg/220px-Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg/330px-Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Daveed_Diggs_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="438" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Daveed_Diggs" title="Daveed Diggs">Daveed Diggs</a> played the part of Leo in 2019</figcaption></figure> <p>The 2019 debut at The Public Theater in New York was directed by <a href="/wiki/Oskar_Eustis" title="Oskar Eustis">Oskar Eustis</a>, and included <a href="/wiki/Daveed_Diggs" title="Daveed Diggs">Daveed Diggs</a> as Leo, Zoe Winters as Dawn, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sadoski" title="Thomas Sadoski">Thomas Sadoski</a> as Ralph and Sheria Irving as Misha.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2019_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_2019-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Los_Angeles_Times_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Los_Angeles_Times-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2021 London production at the <a href="/wiki/Bridge_Theatre" title="Bridge Theatre">Bridge Theatre</a> was directed by <a href="/wiki/Polly_Findlay" title="Polly Findlay">Polly Findlay</a>, and included <a href="/wiki/Ken_Nwosu" title="Ken Nwosu">Ken Nwosu</a> as Leo, Helena Wilson as Dawn, James Corrigan as Ralph and Faith Omole as Misha.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Daily_Telegraph_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One change between the New York and London productions is that while in the 2019 production the characters hang out in a bowling alley, their hang out is a shooting range in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-Evening_Standard_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evening_Standard-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2021 reviewers have noted that the play brings to mind the 2020 <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd" title="Murder of George Floyd">murder of George Floyd</a>, though it premiered the year before.<sup id="cite_ref-i_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Jewish_Chronicle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early 2022 production at the <a href="/wiki/Studio_Theatre_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Studio Theatre (Washington, D.C.)">Studio Theatre, Washington, D.C.</a> was directed by Reginald L. Douglas. It included RJ Brown as Leo, Katie Kleiger as Dawn, Quinn Franzen as Ralph and Tatiana Williams as Misha. There were significant changes made from the 2019 production; more than 20 minutes were cut.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo2022_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo2022-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2019">2019</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2019"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Theater critic <a href="/wiki/Ben_Brantley" title="Ben Brantley">Ben Brantley</a> said "Though <i>White Noise</i> runs a full three hours, and skids on some of its plot twists, it doesn’t feel long. By its end, you may marvel at how many forms, faces and exploitative uses of racial identity it has covered. ... In burrowing deep into what one character calls “the worm hole” of how we talk — and think — about race, Ms. Parks isn’t cutting anyone any slack. Herself included."<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_York_Times_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_York_Times-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>'</i>s reviewer gave the play four out of five stars, saying it "finds [Parks] at her most realistic, which is fun in some ways and frustrating in others. It’s a pleasure to hear her vital, playful intelligence shoved into the mouths of contemporary, recognizable characters and then exasperating when those characters behave implausibly."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2019_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_2019-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Theater critic <a href="/wiki/Hilton_Als" title="Hilton Als">Hilton Als</a>, in a mostly negative review, found the play lacking compared to some of Parks' earlier work.<sup id="cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_New_Yorker-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2021">2021</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2021"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> gave the play four out of five stars.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Daily_Telegraph_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Independent_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Independent-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Independent</i> said that while the scenario is massively implausible, the play "is undercut with a fatalism about a culturally required wokeness that only goes surface-deep, that’s rapidly shrugged off like a heavy coat when things get too heated. It’s grim, brilliantly perceptive, and lets no one off the hook."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Independent_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Independent-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, "its ambitious scope of ideas ensures that the play is funny, challenging, audacious and profoundly unsettling. Three hours seldom passed so quickly."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Daily_Telegraph_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Guardian</i>, the <a href="/wiki/I_(newspaper)" title="I (newspaper)">newspaper <i>i</i></a> and the <i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i> gave the play three out of five stars, <i>The Guardian'</i>s reviewer saying that "even when neither the story nor the characters are believable, this is still a propulsive drama with pace, plotting and a deadly magnetism, and its greatest triumph lies in the virtuosity and vigour of its astonishing cast."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2021_2_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_2021_2-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Evening_Standard_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Evening_Standard-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-i_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-i-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> gave the play two out of five stars. The reviewer said that while the play is extremely well acted, "Parks demands three hours of your time, and in return offers a rambling piece constructed around a ludicrous premise."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2019 <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a>, playwriting.<sup id="cite_ref-IOBDB_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IOBDB-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2019 <a href="/wiki/Outer_Critics_Circle_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Outer Critics Circle Award">Outer Critics Circle Award</a>, outstanding new off-Broadway play.<sup id="cite_ref-IOBDB_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IOBDB-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Noise_(play)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=White+Noise+review+%E2%80%94+exasperated+by+this+American+play+about+race+and+friendship&rft.date=2021-10-13&rft.aulast=Davis&rft.aufirst=Clive&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fwhite-noise-review-exasperated-by-this-american-play-about-race-and-friendship-tglzq5srx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Noise+%28play%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Jewish_Chronicle-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Jewish_Chronicle_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNathan2021" class="citation web cs1">Nathan, John (15 October 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/theatre-review-white-noise-1.521519">"Theatre review: White Noise"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Chronicle" title="The Jewish Chronicle">The Jewish Chronicle</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Telegraph&rft.atitle=White+Noise%2C+review%3A+what+happens+when+a+black+man+asks+a+white+man+to+buy+him%3F&rft.date=2021-10-14&rft.aulast=Benson&rft.aufirst=Dzifa&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Ftheatre%2Fwhat-to-see%2Fwhite-noise-review-happens-black-man-pays-white-man-enslave%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Noise+%28play%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Guardian-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-The_Guardian_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSoloski2021" class="citation web cs1">Soloski, Alexis (12 October 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/12/forty-days-slave-suzan-lori-parks-incendiary-new-play-white-noise-black">"Forty days a slave: Suzan-Lori Parks on her incendiary new play White Noise"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Forty+days+a+slave%3A+Suzan-Lori+Parks+on+her+incendiary+new+play+White+Noise&rft.date=2021-10-12&rft.aulast=Soloski&rft.aufirst=Alexis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fstage%2F2021%2Foct%2F12%2Fforty-days-slave-suzan-lori-parks-incendiary-new-play-white-noise-black&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Noise+%28play%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_New_Yorker-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_New_Yorker_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAls2019" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hilton_Als" title="Hilton Als">Als, Hilton</a> (23 March 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/white-noise-is-a-morality-play-without-the-passion">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"White Noise" Is a Morality Play Without the Passion"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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