Daveed Diggs and Suzan-Lori Parks, ‘In the Pines’ and supernumeraries

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with playwright Suzan-Lori Parks about “White Noise,” along with one of the play’s stars, Daveed Diggs from the original cast of “Hamilton.” Iggy Berlin explains what he does as an extra for operas and ballets, where they’re called supernumeraries. And the rich history of the song “In the Pines,” which many luminaries sang in their signature style, from Kurt Cobain to Lead Belly to Bill Monroe.

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0:00.0	Today on Studio 360, why the outlandish premise of a black guy in America in 2019 asking to be enslaved becomes weirdly believable on stage.
0:18.7	To me, real life is trippy.
0:24.8	If you really look at it, there's some trippy stuff going on.
0:26.3	That's Susan Laurie Parks.
0:29.0	I talked to her about her new play, White Noise,
0:32.1	along with its big star, David Diggs.
0:33.6	Plus... A lead belly cover done... Plus.
0:46.6	A lead belly cover done on an MTV special got frozen into some of our imaginations as the version that all the other songs were kind of leading up to.
0:50.5	The long, rich, musical, and social history of a great old American song, before and after
0:55.8	Nirvana took a turn at making it theirs. That and more is ahead today on Studio 360, right after this.
1:08.2	This is Studio 360. I'm Cornelia, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.0	This first level of garden.
1:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:17.9	Very well done.
1:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:25.8	Studio 360.
1:27.8	With Kurt Anderson.
1:32.2	A play called White Noise just premiered at the public theater in New York City.
1:37.3	It's written by the Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Lurie Parks.
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