Don't Smoke in Bed

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You know I saw an article in Time Magazine a few years ago that stated Asian Men are In, and it had a picture of a white woman riding the back of an Asian man. No Kidding. Like he was some kind of human rickshaw. Maybe you should take a picture of Sheryl riding me with a blunt in her mouth an' a dreadlock wig. Following the success of last year's production of Obama-ology, multi-award-winning African-American playwright Aurin Squire returns to the Finborough Theatre with another world premiere Dont Smoke in Bed. Jamaican-American Richard and White-American Sheryl are starting a family together. When they agree to a series of 'bedroom interviews', they believe that their interracial relationship is the focus of the article. As both play up to what they believe are the expectations of the interviewer, they embark on a journey that challenges their relationship to the core as the barriers between psychological and social, sexual and political, public and private, melt and dissolve... Dont Smoke in Bed is a stunning exploration of social and racial perception in contemporary America.

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Aurin Squire returns to the Finborough Theatre where his play Obama-ology received its world premiere at the end of 2014, and was subsequently produced at RADA. Squire is a New York journalist and playwright who graduated from The Juilliard Schools Liia Acheson Wallace American Playwriting Program in May 2015. He was in the Royal Court Theatres US Writer Programme in 2015 and the Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Currently, he has theatre fellowships at National Black Theatre and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and is television staff writer for the new political satire Brain Dead which will premiere on CBS in the summer of 2016. Squire also works as an independent reporter for Talking Points Memo, Fusion, Take Part and The New Republic. Squire lives in Brooklyn.