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Thomas Bradshaw
Hosted by Pete McCabe
Originally aired 1/1/10

Pete McCabe asks playwright Thomas Bradshaw about being called horrible names and the difference between shock value and provocation. Bradshaw, one of the few playwrights to have earned comparisons to Hitler, discusses the impressions that many often have of a homogeneous black culture, whether his reality mirror is distorted and his desire to impress upon people overlooked realities--along with his dismay that others interpret his representations of reality as sui generis and not inherent in a world beyond his own. Bradshaw received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship and was the Playwright-in-Residence at London's Soho Theatre in London in February 2010 (30 minutes).

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