Robert Quillen Camp
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White on White
Playwright
Hoi Polloi
JACK, NYC, 2022
White on White offers a peek inside the meeting of a white anti-racist group. As the members reckon with sacrifices they must make to live up to their principles, other forces begin to disrupt and unsettle their efforts. An uncanny ode to honesty, forgiveness, and accountability, this ensemble tour de force pulls the audience on a descent from the too-real to the sub-real.
Playwright
Hoi Polloi
JACK, NYC, 2022
White on White offers a peek inside the meeting of a white anti-racist group. As the members reckon with sacrifices they must make to live up to their principles, other forces begin to disrupt and unsettle their efforts. An uncanny ode to honesty, forgiveness, and accountability, this ensemble tour de force pulls the audience on a descent from the too-real to the sub-real.
“At one point I could not help but gasp in horrified delight, or maybe it was delighted horror — the two are closely intertwined in Robert Quillen Camp’s absurdist, outrageous Grand Guignol... its go-for-broke delirium is uncommonly satisfying.“ -Elisabeth Vincentelli, NYT Critic’s Pick
[full review in the New York Times]
Vulture on White on White:
“Expertly directed by Alec Duffy and Lori Elizabeth Parquet... there’s electricity in the way the production packs us all in so close together, about the clever way Quillen Camp ties the play to recent events, about the virtuosically deft orchestration of the characters and their tense efforts at reasoning and argument... it’s elegant writing, delicately juxtaposing what’s persuasive in this kind of [antiracist] work and what isn’t, and it’s precisely, even superbly, performed.” - Helen Shaw
[full review in Vulture]
Written by Robert Quillen Camp
Directed by Lori Elizabeth Parquet & Alec Duffy
Dramaturgy by Nikaury Rodriguez
Lights by Amina Alexander
Sound by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Costumes by Ali Sousa
Scenic Consultant: Mimi Lien
Assistant Scenic Designer/TD: Roni Sipp
Puppet Design: Chris Palmieri
Featuring: Brandt Adams, Dinah Berkeley, Heather E. Cunningham, John Lenartz, Nisi Sturgis, and Peter Mills Weiss
Photo Credit: David Gonsier