The Marie Show: or How To Get a Wh*te Boyfriend
“The Marie Show: or How to Get a Whte Boyfriend in 10 Days” is a multimedia play set up as a live talk show (think Ziwe meets Random Acts of Flyness) where the host Marie and her ensemble of actors interrogate their existence under the wh*te gaze as well as their cognitive dissonances towards dating wh*te people, all while trying to save themselves and the show from being canceled.
Utilizing Wh*te Men in Dashikis, Anime Blerds doing Naruto runs, Dr. Umar, and a diverse group of Barbies having a race war; The Marie Show forces us to uproot our perceptions of what's real and what's fake. What happens when other people watch us desiring each other? Can you sell a lifestyle of desire? And who is pulling the strings?
Play and Film both written and conceived by Marie Tagbo for her Collaborative Arts senior thesis
Play and Film directed by Dylin Taylor
PLAY
Actors: Marie Tagbo, Tyra Hughs, Xavier Jefferson, Alfred Manuel Cabrera, Adama Sall, Joss Gyorkos, and Hassan Sharif
Produced by Marie Tagbo and Emma Grace Lehman
Stage Manager: Jaide Malone
Intimacy Director: Nicholas Garig
Lighting Designers: Eka Savajol + dillon rowe
Puppet: Rory Jackson
FILM
Actors: Kayta Thomas, Kalonjee Gillmore, Bria Gayles-Green, and Autumn Maynard
Produced by Marie Tagbo and Cheyene Vil
DP: Jake Tollman
AD: Dasha Samonova
Gaffer: Henry Armstrong
Key Grip: dillon rowe
Sound: Rori Grimes
Production Designer: Maria Renkas
Makeup: Makenzie Jones
Costumes: Zina Louchy
Editor: Kanayo Kulcher
Assistant Editor: Kai Moran
Sound Designer: Zina Fields