{"id":60073,"date":"2020-08-26T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60073"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:22:26","slug":"this-is-black-double-bill-i-blue-beneath-my-skin-all-the-shit-i-cant-say-to-my-dad-at-the-bunker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60073","title":{"rendered":"This Is Black \u2013 Double Bill I: Blue Beneath My Skin &#038; All the Shit I Can\u2019t Say to My Dad at the Bunker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theupcoming.co.uk\/2019\/08\/10\/this-is-black-double-bill-i-blue-beneath-my-skin-all-the-shit-i-cant-say-to-my-dad-at-the-bunker-theatre-review\/#:~:text=Written%20by%20and%20starring%20Macadie,onslaught%20of%20sexism%20and%20racism.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>This Is Black <\/strong><em><strong>\u2013 Double Bill I: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Blue Beneath My Skin<\/strong><em><strong> &amp; <\/strong><\/em><strong>All the Shit I Can\u2019t Say to My Dad at the Bunker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theupcoming.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Up Coming<\/a><br \/>\n2019-08-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theupcoming.co.uk\/author\/michael-higgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Michael Higgs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theupcoming.co.uk\/2019\/08\/10\/this-is-black-double-bill-i-blue-beneath-my-skin-all-the-shit-i-cant-say-to-my-dad-at-the-bunker-theatre-review\/#:~:text=Written%20by%20and%20starring%20Macadie,onslaught%20of%20sexism%20and%20racism.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theupcoming-flmedialtd.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Blue-Beneath-My-Skin-Macadie-Amoroso-Credit-Korey-J-Ryan-2-1024x620.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featuring four new plays by emerging black writers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_stevenkavuma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Kavuma\u2019s<\/a> <em>This Is Black<\/em> is a highly anticipated festival that promises to be a success. The first part of the festival, Double Bill I, presents highly passionate and thoughtful performances of two one-handers, which leave plenty of room for thought.<\/p>\n<p>Written by and starring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macadie_amoroso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macadie Amoroso<\/a>, <em>Blue Beneath My Skin<\/em> features the life story of a 17-year-old mixed-race girl who dreams of becoming a fashion designer, but who frequently encounters setbacks through an onslaught of sexism and racism. Amoroso\u2019s acting is top-notch and full of soul, never failing to be convincing even for a single moment. The writing, too, is very strong for the most part \u2013 although the occasional irregular use of rhyme, probably a leftover from spoken-word-poetry, does mar the overall presentation somewhat. Plot-wise, the ending also feels rather forced and unlikely. But these minor hiccups are hardly detrimental to an otherwise outstanding performance, which takes a particularly fascinating point of view in exploring racial tensions and questions of identity when being of a mixed heritage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theupcoming.co.uk\/2019\/08\/10\/this-is-black-double-bill-i-blue-beneath-my-skin-all-the-shit-i-cant-say-to-my-dad-at-the-bunker-theatre-review\/#:~:text=Written%20by%20and%20starring%20Macadie,onslaught%20of%20sexism%20and%20racism.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring four new plays by emerging black writers, Steven Kavuma\u2019s &#8220;This Is Black&#8221; is a highly anticipated festival that promises to be a success. The first part of the festival, Double Bill I, presents highly passionate and thoughtful performances of two one-handers, which leave plenty of room for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,8,10,25],"tags":[30328,31085,31084,31086],"class_list":["post-60073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-macadie-amoroso","tag-michael-higgs","tag-steven-kavuma","tag-the-up-coming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60079,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60073\/revisions\/60079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}