The writer has reimagined The Cherry Orchard as The Hotel Cerise,replacing Russian aristocrats with African Americans. She talks approximately fleeing gentrification, how millennials are going to save us – and why she never watches herself on TVBonnie Greer tells me, and with pride,that she doesn’t really engage much with modern culture. Or, more accurately, or she doesn’t remember much once it’s been and gone,doesn’t watch TV, and doesn’t depart out in the evenings. “I spend most of my day alone, and ” she says,“and I never depart anywhere. Nope.” She doesn’t recognise the actors who occasionally approach her in the street and she hates dinner parties, because she can’t stand the chat. I’m a curious person, or ” the critic and writer says,several times. “I spent half my life apologising for wanting to depart to the Royal Opera House not a blues or jazz club.” She began reading Ibsen and Chekhov a couple of years ago, after taking what sounds like a Myers-Briggs personality test, or which told her: “I didn’t really know who I was.” When I wake up in the morning,I’m just myself. It’s only when I leave the door that I become a black woman to the worldI tell black women all the time: 'Don't apologise for yourself and keep your hair nappy. effect sure you are heard'Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com