Tight Right White (1993)

Staged in a loft on Lafayette Street across from the Public Theatre the piece used the film adaptation of Kyle Onstotts 1957 novel Mandingo as its primary script Sitting on cushions on the floor audience members had to crane their necks to see the proceedings Enter Moishe Pipik the amazing Tony Torn a longnosed Jewish character in a hucksters checked suit When he pisses in a pot of earth a money tree springs up Moishe has a friend Blaster a black teenage junkie and drug dealer Theyre refugees in a senseracist and antiSemitic parodies of Jewish liberal identification with blackness Sometimes they hang out as if they were on a talk show their chatter intercut with all that Mandingo mess Mandingos black phallus looming in the minds of the white people who constructed their dream of an antebellum South on black backs