About the Form
This form was adapted from a sample from Theatrical Intimacy Education and revised to include the specific instances of intimacy, violence, and nudity present in the script of Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears.
Please also read the Intimacy, nudity, violence scene breakdown as it provides more context for all the items asked in this form. All instances of intimacy, violence, and nudity in this production will be choreographed and within all actors’ boundaries. Our intimacy choreographer will be Ynika Yuag.
Show Description
Harlem Duet is a 1997 dramatic play by Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Billie, a young graduate student in Harlem, deals with her husband Othello leaving her for a white woman named Mona. The play moves through time to show Billie and Othello’s relationship (or an analogue thereof) being torn apart by racial tensions at a Southern US cotton plantation in 1860, and in Harlem in 1928 and the present.
Though the characters draw inspiration from Shakespeare’s play Othello, Billie and the story are original creations.
Script includes content regarding and/or portraying: racial dynamics in relationships between Black women/men and White women/Black men; divorce; murder; Blackface minstrel makeup; Black revolutionists and movements; Southern American plantations in the 1800s (Harlem Duet, Wikipedia).
Contact
For any questions/comments/concerns about this form or the contents herein, contact the intimacy choregrapher, Ynika Yuag.
Ynika Yuag
Intimacy Choreographer