Katori Hall, playwright and creator of "P-Valley"

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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FANTI podcast hosts Jarrett Hill and Tre'vell Anderson are taking over Bullseye this week! Next up, Tre'vell's interview with Katori Hall. She's an award-winning playwright. Her most acclaimed work is perhaps The Mountaintop. It imagines Martin Luther King's last night on earth at the Lorraine Motel. These days, she's the creator and showrunner of the new Starz show P-Valley. It's based on a play of hers by the same name. It's set in a place called The Pynk – a strip club in the Mississippi Delta. The show focuses on the people who work in the club: the women on stage, the bouncers, the bartenders, and the boss: Uncle Clifford. Tre'vell Anderson chats with Katori about the show and where it fits into the broad conversation of stripping and sex work. Plus, where she got the idea for the show and embracing the humanity of this often overlooked industry.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.2	It's Bullseye, I'm Jared Hill.
0:22.2	And I am Trouville Anderson.
0:24.0	Jessie's out this week and the Maxlin podcast fan tie is taking over.
0:29.4	We got Max Trevelle, you've got a guest who you're talking to.
0:31.6	Yes, I spoke to Catori Hall, who is a well-reveared playwright who's transitioning into television
0:38.5	now with a adaptation of her play, P Valley, the name of the play is the P stands for where
0:45.6	we can't say on NPR, but she's known for a lot of her plays in particular, the mountain
0:51.3	top in one of the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Play and it reimagines Martin Luther
0:56.6	King's last night on Earth at the Lorraine Motel.
1:00.5	And here in P Valley, have you had a chance to see it yet, Jared?
1:04.1	I haven't gotten a check it out yet.
1:05.6	No.
1:06.6	Okay, so let me tell you, this is the new show that everyone needs to be paying attention
1:10.8	to.
1:11.8	It is set in a fictional Southern town in the Mississippi Delta and it's a show about sex
1:16.8	workers and strippers and my favorite character by the name of Uncle Clifford.
1:21.8	She is a non-binary individual who owns the strip club called The Pink.
1:27.6	That's P-Y-N-K.
1:28.6	I got a chance to talk about a little bit of that character with Catori.
1:33.4	We're going to throw to a clip right now.
1:35.2	In this clip, Clifford gets a visit in her office from the Queen B of the Club, a dancer
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