Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s First Time

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins discusses his first play “Neighbors.” Part of “The Paris Review”'s “My First Time” video interview series.
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Today in our “My First Time” series, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins talks about his first play, “Neighbors,” which debuted at the Public Theater in 2010.

[@MsRmreed]

We are so lucky to have Brandon writing sbout America..black and white..history, current. Thanks.

[@toniford2943]

Brandon, all your Sunties are so proud of you. Pat, we applaud you. Congrats again.

[@monicaparker9170]

Wow

[@piecesofme8531]

@@monicaparker9170 rosemary, Tony, Monica. I’m seriously curious. What revelations do you derive from Brandon’s work. Particularly Neighbors. This seems to be like Kara Walker’s silhouettes: grand spectacles of black debasement, propped up by white art funders, to what end exactly?

[@piecesofme8531]

Why did the program have the full n word written out as silhouetted in the word Neighbors? That traumatized me. Does anyone have the original playbill?

[@augopen]

Can the white audience members even laugh?

[@piecesofme8531]

Why did the program have the full n word written out as silhouetted in the word Neighbors? That traumatized me. Does anyone have the original playbill?