Tight Right White
Synopsis
Staged in a loft on Lafayette Street, across from the Public Theatre, the piece used the film adaptation of Kyle Onstott’s 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 long-nosed Jewish character in a huckster’s checked suit. When he pisses in a pot of earth, a money tree springs up. Moishe has a friend, Blaster, a black teen-age junkie and drug dealer. They’re refugees, in a sense—racist and anti-Semitic 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, Mandingo’s black phallus looming in the minds of the white people who constructed their dream of an antebellum South on black backs.
Release History & Theatrical Window
August 28, 1993
Wide Cinema Exhibition
Key Information & Fast Facts
- Director
- Reza Abdoh
- Original Title
- Tight Right White
- Spoken Languages
- English
- Runtime
- 19m
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Reza Abdoh
Department Leadership Roster
Reza Abdoh
Director
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What is Tight Right White about?
Staged in a loft on Lafayette Street, across from the Public Theatre, the piece used the film adaptation of Kyle Onstott’s 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 long-nosed Jewish character in a huckster’s checked suit. When he pisses in a pot of earth, a money tree springs up. Moishe has a friend, Blaster, a black teen-age junkie and drug dealer. They’re refugees, in a sense—racist and anti-Semitic 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, Mandingo’s black phallus looming in the minds of the white people who constructed their dream of an antebellum South on black backs.
Who directed Tight Right White?
Tight Right White was directed by Reza Abdoh.
Who stars in Tight Right White?
The principal cast of Tight Right White includes Not specified.
When was Tight Right White released and how long is it?
Tight Right White was released in 1993 with a total runtime of 19m.