The White Card

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A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author ofCitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black white American drama The scenes in this one act play, for all the characters disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond. from the introduction by Claudia RankineClaudia Rankine s first published play, The White Card, poses the essential question Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible Composed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up and coming artist Charlotte Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles s intentions One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist s studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what and who is actually on display.Rankine s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself. Download The White Card – kino-fada.fr The moment I heard of this play I knew I had to read it Claudia Rankine s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself The play is composed of two scenes it opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up and coming artist Charlotte Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals to The moment I heard of this play I knew I had to read it Claudia Rankine s The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself The play is composed of two scenes it opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up and coming artist Charlotte Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles s intentions One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist s studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what and who is actually on display.I was immediately hooked since the synopsis reminded me of Yasmina Reza s work, in particular Le Dieu du Carnage and Trois Versions de la Vie I am a sucker for intimate theatre in which character...rankine has the answers who will listenThis is a very difficult thing for me to review, since it tackles an important and rarely discussed issue basically the blindness white people have to their own privilege, even when they believe they abhor racism , so it gets kudos for that alone My problem is that Rankine, a well respected poet, hasn t really written a play She has written a debate, complete with bullet points, footnotes people are constantly bringing up works of art or literature and then having to EXPLAIN what they are ab This is a very difficult thing for me to review, since it tackles an important and rarely discussed issue basically the blindness white people have to their own privilege, even when they believe they abhor racism , so it gets kudos for that alone My problem is that Rankine, a well respected poet, hasn t really written a play She has written a debate, complete with bullet points, footnotes people are constantly bringing up works of art or literature and then having to EXPLAIN what they are about and Power Point illustrations SHOWING the aforementioned art so that their points can be made discussed , that bears little resemblance to how people actually...Unsurprisingly provocative, smart, intense There is so much to absorb hereThere is alot to unpack in this play I may even need to reread it The dialogue is sharp and rich I would definitely like to see this on stage.I am not white so none of this play was new to me It s important and significant that someone with a loud of clout is giving voice to the opinions, judgments, and insights of this play They really are quite obvious though, to anyone who has ever lived as a colored, or poor, or otherwise disenfranchised person in America This play, Rankine, forces into clear focus on the issue of race on blackness vs whiteness in particular I think I understand her choice in presenting race in this star I am not white so none of this play was new to me It s important and significant that someone with a loud of clout is giving voice to the opinions, judgments, and insights of this play They really are quite obvious though, to anyone who has ever lived as a colored, or poor, or otherwise disenfranchised person in America This play, Rankine, forces into clear focus on the issue of race on blackness vs whiteness in particular I think I ...This is a short play that explores art in a traditional gallery setting, collecting art, and how contemporary American Black art and the artists who make it fit into that kind of explicitly normative and white discourse It engages with several specific pieces of art, which are reproduced in the book, and which are shown to the audience during the play I have seen people complain in the Goodreads reviews that the dialog is too formal I felt that was part of the point This is kind of the rever This is a short play that explores art in a traditional gallery setting, collecting art, and how contemporary American Black art and the artists who make it fit into that kind of explicitly normative and white discourse It engages with several specific pieces of art, which are reproduced in the book, and which are shown to the audience during the play I have seen people complain in the Goodreads reviews that the dialog is too formal I felt that was part of the point This is kind of the reverse of work focusing on lives of marginalized political activists of which I ve read, where here the activists are not the ones providing the framing, but are straining against it And people can speak in this very ...I wish I had gotten to see this when it was performed last year The White Card was created in response to a question that a white man asked Rankine at an event When he didn t like her answer, he became critical of her This play deals with whiteness and how even people who believe their intentions to be good can become defensive when they are challenged The cast of characters was intentionally produced to portray a range of white people believing that they re helping Charlotte, a black arti I wish I had gotten to see this when it was performed last year The White Card was created in response to a question that a white man asked Rankine at an event When he didn t like her answer, he became critical of her This play deals with whiteness and how even people who believe their intentions to be good can become defensive when they are challenged The cast of characters was intentionally produced to portray a range of white people believing that they re ...This play makes explicit the notion that whites are as locked into a racist system and any other race, despite the constant assurance that I m not racist It s not how the issue is usually framed, and as such, it makes a punch Where the play looses its steam is in its dramatic presentation The characters all breathe the rarified air of those whose lives revolve around Art, Intellectualism, and Wealth and tennis , and it shows in their speech This raises the issue to a Serious One, but perh This play makes explicit the notion that whites are as locked into a racist system and any other race, despite the constant assurance that I m not racist It s not how the issue is usually framed, and as such, it makes a punch Where the play looses its steam is in its dramatic presentation The characters all breathe the rarified air of those whose lives rev...As a look at discussion of systemic racism in America, this is powerful and a fascinating concept There were parts where I felt that the examples of microagressions happening were way overstated to where it could be awkward and clunky on stage Loved the art included.

The White Card
  • 09 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 104 pages
  • 1555978398
  • Claudia Rankine
  • The White Card