It's because there's been this long history of hypersexualized images in the media, specifically of Black women. P-Valley (TV Series 2020– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. But we also wanted the audience to understand that it's hard work (laughter). It stars Brandee Evans, Nicco Annan, and Elarica Johnson. Black women shine and shake the Dirty Delta to its core in Katori Hall’s engaging, vibrant and intrepid stripper series 'P-Valley,' premiering on Starz. P-Valley Is A Raw & Honest Portrait Of Women Working In Strip Clubs Series creator Katori Hall interviewed over 40 women about their lives and work as strippers. It's a theatrical experience and... GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah, you actually capture that really well. You even spent your 30th birthday at the Sin City Bronx locker room. HALL: What's very interesting in a Southern strip club is that pole-dancing is like a Cirque du Soleil-esque experience. The series is an adaptation of Hall's play, Pussy Valley, and follows several people who work at a strip club in the Mississippi Delta. Olivier Award-winning playwright and activist Katori Hall — who also wrote the book for the Broadway musical Tina — discusses her new Starz show P-Valley on the latest installment of … We were going to appreciate a woman's body, of course. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. In Starz’s new drama P-Valley, Nicco Annan (This Is Us, Shameless) is Uncle Clifford. Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news There are some shows out there that try to break down stereotypes and give a voice to groups that typically haven’t been given one, and playwright Katori Hall’s latest show with Starz, ‘P-Valley… And I thought we were, like, really successful at showcasing that. Chucalissa is the fictional Mississippi Delta town at the center of Katori Hall’s richly textured and engagingly soapy new Starz drama “P-Valley.” When some of the characters are dancing, you take away the music and the noise, and all we hear is the exertion, you know, of how hard they're working and just this absolutely amazing presentation that is not just about displaying themselves but about really what you say - art form. I don't... GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah, it's 'cause you're doing the work. But I am hypersensitive to that as a Black woman. "P-Valley," a new show on Starz, takes place in a strip club, Pynk. She goes to the tippy-top. HALL: The thing that enlightened me the most was, you know, obviously, there's this assumption that the strip club is an exploitative space, and it is. HALL: Yeah. Listen to Meryl Streep, Andrew Rannells, Ariana DeBose, Nicole Kidman, Jo Ellen Pellman and more sing out ahead of the Netflix film's release. GARCIA-NAVARRO: What did you learn from those conversations? GARCIA-NAVARRO: I understand you spent nearly a decade going to strip clubs all over the country... GARCIA-NAVARRO: ...And interviewing women. She says it's a way "to show black, Southern culture in a nuanced way." Katori Hall (left) on set of 'P-Valley' season 1. You hear the squeak of her skin against that metal pole. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Katori Hall is an Olivier Award-winning playwright, and "P-Valley" is adapted from a play she wrote about a place that's more complex than its reputation. And it's really on the people who are still in power to start opening up their eyes and changing their hiring practices. Exactly. I think it really highlights how vulnerable we have been, how there is a history of people not protecting us, not caring about us. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with award-winning playwright Katori Hall about P-Valley, a new series based on her play, set in a Mississippi Delta strip club. A list of stage musicals announced to be adapted as films. READ: Katori Hall Takes On Strip Clubs, Power, Sex, and The South in Her Explosive New Series P-Valley The creative team also includes composer Reza Safinia, production designer Jeffrey … P-Valley, based on Hall's play Pussy Valley, unravels the fascinating lives of strip club dancers working in the Mississippi Delta, also known as Dirty Delta. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. Like, we have to think about really giving equal opportunities to people who are deserving. GARCIA-NAVARRO: I read in the making of this show that some executives suggested you show less nudity, which I thought was really interesting for a show about a club. Starring are Elarica Johnson, Brandee Evans, Shannon Thorton, Skyler Joy, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Harriett D. Foy, Tyler Lepley, Dan J. Johnson, and Parker Sawyers. However, I was always amazed at how so many were able to find a space of liberation for themselves, whether it was economical, whether it was social. When Hall … Of course, I'm thinking of Breonna Taylor, who was killed on March 13. We know Katori has a lot of incredible stories to tell and a lot in store for these women in a second season.". HALL: Absolutely. Each episode traces the kaleidoscopic story of a tiny strip club where … And I think I know where that was coming from. READ: Katori Hall Takes On Strip Clubs, Power, Sex, and The South in Her Explosive New Series P-Valley. But many have criticized the Black Lives Matter movement for not putting in the same work to advocate for Black women. And so we talked a lot about framing and how we were going to not always, you know, linger on breasts. HALL: It's like, well, I'm including people. But this club is about more than just pole-dancing. And if we could create this moment on a Sunday night where you care about a Black woman who's, you know, the opposite of you in terms of identity but you can see yourself in her, I think we've done quite a lot. The actress on her dance roots and forming a sisterhood on the set of Katori Hall's Starz drama. The Tony winner and Oscar nominee will play the 19th century Egbado princess, enslaved by the Dahomey kingdom and ultimately taken in by Queen Victoria as a goddaughter. Hall developed her play Pussy Valley into the television drama series on Starz, renamed P-Valley, which … We want to celebrate a woman's body. Research for a new play took writer Katori Hall to, of all places, a Crunch gym. Copyright © 2020 NPR. Chernin Entertainment executive produces with Hall. The film, based on the Broadway musical, arrives on Netflix December 11. Plus: A new theatre festival aims to showcase the voices of artists with disabilities. “P-Valley has quickly become this summer’s newest must-see television series as critics and audiences alike are taken up by the authentic and compelling characters that make The Pynk come alive,” said Christina Davis, Starz president of original programming. Creator Katori Hall interviewed 40 strippers to create this world. The series follows the lives of employees and patrons of a small-town Mississippi strip club. The show, titled P-Valley, comes from a Black woman — playwright Katori Hall (The Mountaintop) — and is an “unflinching and unapologetic look” at the lives of women working at a … On the "Stagecraft" podcast, Katori Hall ("Tina," "Hot Wing King," "P-Valley") talks hot wings, Tina Turner and her rapping alter ego. Hall (also the book writer of Broadway's Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) serves as showrunner for the series, which debuted July 12 and follows the lives of those working in a small-town Mississippi strip club—and the locals who come through its doors. It's a community that showrunner Katori Hall knows well, growing up in Memphis. GARCIA-NAVARRO: You mention this fact that it's not only women in front of the camera but women of color behind the camera, too. And all of that was sound design because we really wanted to place the audience, you know, inside her perspective. "P-Valley" is very real, showing economic hardship, physical abuse, … This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Like, she was able to stack enough paper to move out of an apartment that she shared with an abusive boyfriend. The playwright and showrunner Katori Hall adapted “P-Valley” from her 2015 play “Pussy Valley.” For the TV version, she hired only female directors (the music-video director Karena Evans sets … Deep in the Mississippi Delta lies an oasis of glitter amid violent human trajectories where beauty can be hard to find. KATORI HALL: I have been that woman who was throwing dollars at the club. Jessica Miglio/© 2019 Starz Entertainment, Morocco Omari, Chinet Scott, Tyler Lepley, Brandon Gilpin, Brandee Evans, and Nicco Annan in, Elarica Johnson, Shannon Thornton, Brandee Evans, and Shannon Thornton in, Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: December 6, Months After Inequity Reckoning, Flea Theater Discontinues The Bats and Other Resident Artist Groups, Warner Bros. Will Release Entire 2021 Slate, Including, Watch Oscar Winner Nicole Kidman Demonstrate Her 'Zazz' in Full Performance Clip From, In the News: Barrett Wilbert Weed and Benjamin Walker Head to the Small Screen, an Anniversary Concert of, Cynthia Erivo to Star in and Produce Biopic on Omoba Aina, Later Named Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Audra McDonald, Renée Fleming, More Set for PBS' New Year's Eve Concert, Schedule of Upcoming Movie Musical Adaptations. HALL: I definitely think it should always - I don't - like, I don't know why it's so hard for people to see what women as creators and as filmmakers and as writers can bring to the table. (SOUNDBITE OF KIASMOS' "BLURRED BONOBO REMIX"). Do you think that's a model for this moment that we're in right now when there's so much discussion about representation? Those officers have still not been arrested in that case. P-Valley is an American series, self-adapted by playwright Katori Hall from her play “Pussy Valley”. It premiered on Starz on July 12, 2020, and will run for eight consecutive episodes.. On July 27, 2020 Starz announced it has greenlit a second season for its new breakout series "P-Valley… And I really think we were successful on a lot of levels. It is a reflection of patriarchy - the fact that you have women participating in the sexualization of themselves. You're actually... HALL: Exactly. It's two stories up. But I actually just think that we're doing what should be being done anyway. And so they were being sensitive. Pynk serves as a watering hole for its community based in the Mississippi Delta. Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input “Katori has delivered a provocative drama that looks beyond the glitz and into the hearts and minds of these fully realized and compelling characters, exploring them through a female gaze that invites the audience to take a walk in their stilettos. And so do - I don't know if we'll ever get to a moment where everything feels like it's equal. The Starz series P-Valley was created by Katori Hall, a playwright who adapted the story from her own play. In October 2020, Hall received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. But we were going to be much more interested in what a woman's body could do. And so I always knew that liberation and exploitation dances cheek to cheek in the strip club. Like, I always remind people that Cardi B, this stripper-turned-rapper - like, she always says that stripping saved her life. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. It seems like it's special, you know, when we decide to bring in all-female directing teams. The adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Tony-winning musical is slated to debut June 18. HALL: Absolutely (laughter). Nicco Annan, who starred in the play's world premiere at Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theatre, portrays Uncle Clifford with Dreamgirls star and Grey's Anatomy Emmy winner Loretta Devine as Ernestine. And she flips herself upside down, and you hear the - her grunting. The series is directed entirely by women, including Karena Evans, who directed the premiere episode, Kimberly Peirce, Millicent Shelton, Tamra Davis, Geeta V. Patel, Tasha Smith, Sydney Freeland, and Barbara Brown. The creative team also includes composer Reza Safinia, production designer Jeffrey Pratt Gordon, and costume designer Rita McGhee, with hair and make-up by Pamela Hall and Stevie Martin, respectively. Absolutely. You know, diversity is not equality. Sign up for exclusive discounts and save up to 50% on tickets! Copyright 1991-2020 © Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Do you think you're going to get to a place where you can have this discussion and it not be about pushing boundaries or making a statement, and it's just about, this is a show about this, and that's it? Annan originated the character, who uses she/her pronouns, in playwright Katori Hall’s 2015 play Pussy Valley. And you - you're like, talk about diversity. We just really wanted to make sure that people were experiencing this world through their eyes, through their gaze, because the female gaze was so important to this show. HALL: I love the fact that this is a platform to talk about that intersectionality of identity of being a Black woman. HALL: I think I get a little frustrated that, you know, I - oftentimes, you know, you get put on the hot seat. The evening will also feature Brian Stokes Mitchell, Josh Groban, and Anna Deavere Smith. 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