The Immeasurable Want of Light
The Immeasurable Want of Light
THE IMMEASURABLE WANT OF LIGHT
BY DAAIMAH MUBASHSHIR
INTRODUCED BY AMAUTA M. FIRMINO
WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY NELL PAINTER
The Immeasurable Want of Light is a play illustrated by famed historian and painter Nell Painter. The Immeasurable Want of Light follows Maker, a black, overweight artist, as she comes of age in an alternate universe. This is an epic play, consisting of twenty-eight distinct micro plays of varying language styles and forms, that journeys through shifting perspectives of living in Black skin.
July 1, 2018
$17.00
PRAISE
BOMB MAGAZINE EDITOR’S CHOICE
This collection of plays is a testimony to and an expression of life in the Black body and psyche. The work dares to meet the subject matter where it is, allowing it to tell the truth, shame the devil, and put a self-congratulatory industry on notice. The time for niceties has come and gone. If theatre is to be revolutionary, it cannot be lukewarm, it must bring the fire. That is what Daaimah Mubashshir has done.
— Stacey Rose
Words, sentences, “whole mercurial texts” overflow luminously. Writing that breathes fresh life into the plays at discrete moments you didn’t know needed it.
—Rachel Valinsky, BOMB Magazine
When you see the quote “she’s ahead of her time” it means that everyone else needs catching up. Do yourself a favor, catch up; be here now, and you will need not look back. Here lies Black.
— Raja Feather Kelly
As a photographer, I am drawn to Mubashshir’s ability to create images with her words. Images that cling to you, so vivid and visceral that you will want to read slowly and savor every word.
— Kelli Connell
What unites these wild permutations about Blackness is a fundamental question that has always been relevant and will likely remain so: from where is value derived?
— Stephen Christensen
a pageant/poem. luxuriant. o please
stage this blaze faceted jewel.
— Honor Moore
Daaimah Mubashshir is a playwright and theatre-maker living and working in New York. Her work has been commissioned and developed by 3 Hole Press, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, WP Theater, Playco and Fire This Time Festival. Daaimah was recently awarded a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. She is currently on faculty at Bard College. daaimahmubashshir.com