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Toure Show

Doug Lyons–I Am The Drama

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Doug Lyons is a great young Broadway playwright as well as an actor, writer, director, and composer. He loves creating stories that will illuminate the lives of Black queer people and I love talking to him about Broadway, acting, writing, and how he wants to tell great stories about gay people. Toure Show Episode 303 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock

0:07.9

Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,

0:14.4

playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.

0:18.3

Here we go!

0:19.3

I'm for a drum and bass!

0:21.3

Oh, just 110 pounds pounds Tom Bola open for fun

0:26.5

terms apply 18 plus please play safely. Okay ready. Take what you know, and it's by the time when you get yourself and we are, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I want to know some things to see

0:45.0

I think about baby one and get me.

0:48.0

I'll think about everyone you need

0:52.0

I'll all the things are good brown now. Maybe want you to need it, I'm going to be here.

0:55.0

I'm here, seeing you wanting you, hey.

0:59.4

Good sort of race, oh, okay, though. Good sort of race show, okay okay though. The term ratio, okay though.

1:05.0

That might be the best question I've ever been asked. The New Yorker said that your play treats black experience as a subject to elicit pleasure and

1:26.7

joy rather than pain. And I think in all art quite often the black experience even from black pen is about hey

1:36.4

let's mind the trauma let's deal with the pain but you in this piece really lead

1:41.7

toward the joy of Black Cross? I as an actor and also now

1:46.7

a writer have seen so many things in the theater specifically that have to go

1:51.2

through a certain gaze to get space.

1:54.3

And so sometimes that gaze likes to allow things through

1:59.0

that put us in a more traumatized state.

2:01.3

And so my commitment is to write towards the healing to

2:07.7

make sure it's really appealing to us and I was just at the theater before I

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