Overview

Thought-provoking and electrifying...Ain't No Mo' both honors its ancestors and loudly makes a stand for its own unique perspective. -Greg Evans, Deadline The time is the near future, and African American Airlines Flight 1619 has been chartered to take Black Americans ""back to Africa."" Organizing the boarding process is Peaches, a flight agent in drag who is juggling the passengers' excitement and reluctance, as well as her own. Presented in eight vignettes, Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo' is both a satire and a serious investigation examining the ever-varying facets of the Black American experience: lives affected by violence, class tensions, the prison-industrial complex, and culture vultures.

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"""It's a delight to have Jordan E. Cooper kick down the door of Broadway in heels and storm onstage with something as raucous as Ain't No Mo'. The show's whirligig satire seems to gain momentum by sending up its very environs, a series of sketches built around a recurring conceit wherein Cooper, in drag as a flight attendant named Peaches, desperately tries to coordinate the onboarding for a government-funded flight taking Black Americans back to Africa."" --Vulture ""Ain't No Mo' . . . bursts with confidence. It is confident in its voice, in its beliefs, in its artistry, in its wicked humor and angry pain--or pain-laden anger."" --New York Times ""Ain't No Mo' wrangles rhetorical fantasy into a rollicking, high-concept sitcom, mining dark comedy from the horrors of racism and the particulars of Black life. Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, it's heady and hysterical and fearlessly provocative. Its keen observations about race as both social construction and lived reality crackle like a lit fuse."" --Variety"

"""It's a delight to have Jordan E. Cooper kick down the door of Broadway in heels and storm onstage with something as raucous as Ain't No Mo'. The show's whirligig satire seems to gain momentum by sending up its very environs, a series of sketches built around a recurring conceit wherein Cooper, in drag as a flight attendant named Peaches, desperately tries to coordinate the onboarding for a government-funded flight taking Black Americans back to Africa."" --Vulture ""Ain't No Mo' ...bursts with confidence. It is confident in its voice, in its beliefs, in its artistry, in its wicked humor and angry pain--or pain-laden anger."" --New York Times ""Ain't No Mo' wrangles rhetorical fantasy into a rollicking, high-concept sitcom, mining dark comedy from the horrors of racism and the particulars of Black life. Explosive as a hand grenade of laughing gas, it's heady and hysterical and fearlessly provocative. Its keen observations about race as both social construction and lived reality crackle like a lit fuse."" --Variety"

Author Information

Jordan E. Cooperis an award-winning performer and playwright who was recently one ofOutmagazine's ""Entertainers Of The Year."" He starred in a sold-out Broadway run of his playAin't No Mo', which was aNew York TimesCritic's Pick. Cooper also created a pandemic-centered short film calledMama Got A Coughthat's been featured inNational Geographicand was named ""Best Of 2020"" byThe New York Times. He is the creator and executive producer ofThe Ms. Pat Show, a three-time Emmy-nominated sitcom on BET+.

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