“Sometimes what they say may make uneasy audiences feel they have a bit too much attitude, but this work isn’t intended to make white audiences feel warm and fuzzy or at all comfortable.”
“More specifically, though, the overarching problem in “Single Black Female” is how to net a suitable partner — something that seems to give all Gothamites considerable grief. ”
“it’s like we read for colored girls and we’re able to see ourselves and our experiences as profound and worthy of acknowledgement. as a result, we record and preserve those experiences through the creation of a play that tells our story.”
“Thompson’s series of comic discourses ... expands and complicates and celebrates what black femininity can look like, in a way that’s still relevant in 2019, when theater has made much progress in how we depict women of color, but we still have a long way to go, especially in terms of not boxing them into tragic narratives.”
