Who your daddy gay
“Arisa White channels the ear of Zora Neale Hurston, the tongue of Toni Cade Bambara, and the eye of Alice Walker in the wondrous Who’s Your Daddy. She channels Guyanese proverbs, Shango dreams, games of hide and seek, and memories of an absentee father to shape the spiritual condition. What she makes is “a maze that bobs and weaves a novel style whenever there’s a demand to love.” What she gives us are archives, allegories, and wholly new songs.”
—Terrance Hayes
“In these crisply narrative poems, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of production, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter, but graces it with its accurate and terrible confront. Every little colored girl who has craved the continual of her father’s gaze will realize this quest, which the poet undertakes with lyric that is tender and unerring.”
—Patricia Smith
“Somewhere nearing its end, Arisa White says of Who’s Your Daddy, it’s “a portrait of absence and presence, a story, a tale, told in patchwork fashion . . .” This exactly says what Who’s Your Daddy is, though it doesn’t state all it takes to do justice to the mythic paradox an absent parent guarantees a child, young or grown, or
Who’s Your Daddy?
Blood on the Clocktower is special. That’s always been apparent. Steven Medway not only succeeded in making a improve social deduction game, he set a benchmark that might not be surpassed anytime soon.
But while I’ve enjoyed my time with Blood on the Clocktower, it wasn’t until I was invited to a session with a local gay gaming group that its true power became apparent.
Personalities in collision.
Our story begins not with a murder, but with a hug.
Nine hugs.
More hugs than I’m accustomed to, if I’m being honest.
I was here courtesy of a friend. He was recently out of the closet and bright in a way I’d never seen before. Face upturned, eyes alive. I’d always acknowledged him to be… “whimsical” might be the pos, given to unusual hobbies and enthusiasms, but calm, too, a person two frames out of sync with the world around him. Until recently. Until his world was thrown into disarray by his acknowledgement of his culture. In that disarray, something about him grew paradoxically clearer. Like tapping a VCR that’s gotten off track, his image had resolved, new and whole. Now here we were, a
Who’s Your Daddy?
Terrence isn’t worried about figuring out who his Secret Santa is…all the possibilities are pleasurable. But he’s a petite curious, especially when the card is signed by his Secret Santa Daddy. Okay, he’s definitely curious, but since it has to be one of the contractors currently rebuilding his kitchen…accidents happen…he’s not worried, but he is hoping it’s the grumpy one. Wait. What was his name again?
Enzo isn’t worried. He knows the slightly distractible little will figure things out eventually, and if he doesn’t, well, one of his cousins will help the cutie out. They detect him just as fascinating as Enzo does, but finders keepers, so the cutie belongs to him. Besides, he’s the only Daddy in the organization, so that’s going to work in his favor too. As long as he can get his mischievous little to actually try to guess who his Santa is.
When a Secret Santa brings presents and attention, a naughty cutie might need a push to help him remember that the finest gifts need a Daddy to play with.
Author's Note:
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Who’s Your Daddy
W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre
in association with Georganne Aldrich Heller & Jami Heidegger
by Johnny O’Callaghan
directed by Tom Ormeny
April 15- May 26, 2013
Johnny O’Callaghan’s Who’s Your Daddy? is the uplifting and funny true story of his adoption of a Ugandan orphan. No one expected the single, male lover, out-of-work actor to ever become a father – but a documentary discharge in Africa turns into an odyssey of the heart.
The Los Angeles Times called O’Callaghan “a charmer (think Denis Leary’s puckish younger brother),” adding that the play’s “infectious comedy and irreverent insights maintain the evening sharp.” LA Weekly praised the show: “It’s a GO! A well-calibrated performance that elicits audience adulation.” Last summer, Who’s Your Daddy transferred to Edinburgh Fringe with The Independent calling it “superb” and Scots Queer Magazine recommending it as “a powerful, moving piece of theatre.”
Learn more about Who’s Your Daddy? in the New York Times interview with writer/actor Johnny O’Callagahan!
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