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Toure Show

Jordan E Cooper–I Made Ain’t No Mo

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jordan E. Cooper is an amazing young playwright who created the Tony nominated Broadway play Ain’t No Mo which is about a moment where every Black American is being given a one way plane ticket to Africa. In this throwback interview Cooper, who is also the play’s star, goes into what Ain’t No Mo means and what ideas inspired it. Original Air Date: Dec 21, 2022 Toure Show Ep 357: I Made Ain't No Mo Please fill out our listener survey. We’d love to hear from you! https://forms.gle/jFWcyk3qp4Wfi7YF7 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

Okay, ready.

0:02.0

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, uh, I want to know some things to see

0:15.0

I think about baby,

0:20.0

one you need it.

0:22.0

I'll only need rooms and real now.

0:25.0

I have here seen you wanting you,

0:28.0

hey, good sort of race show.

0:30.0

Okay, though.

0:32.0

Good sort of race show. Okay okay though. That might be the best question I've ever been on. You're a phenomenal

0:40.0

person and I mean legendary. I am a fan of you, my brother.

0:45.0

Ain't No Mo is one of the most interesting hysterical gripping compelling Broadway

0:56.1

experiences that I have had in a really long time. It's a play about everybody black is about to get on a plane to go back to Africa

1:06.9

but then it's a look at what it means to be African American in this moment as

1:11.6

we're about to leave behind the African American experience.

1:17.3

It is deep, it is powerful, it is funny.

1:19.8

It is like no play I've ever been to and I really wanted to talk to Jordan Cooper

1:26.3

who stars who created who is the man behind this play it's extraordinary and it's a fantastic conversation about the play and

1:36.2

about writing it and the business of trying to save it let's get into it it's my man

1:42.0

Jordan Cooper the creator and star of Ain't No Moe on Toray Show.

1:51.0

I am so thrilled and uplifted and excited after having seen your play.

1:58.6

It is an extraordinary night at the theater.

2:01.7

And like right from the first moment you know you're doing

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