P.Y.G. or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

FULL LENGTH - Dorian Bell is a big deal. He’s a Canadian pop sweetheart, and he’s ready to be taken seriously. So his people hire his favorite hip-hop artists—Black and Alexand, the ‘bad boy’ rappers of Petty Young Goons—to help him toughen up his image. They’re black, he’s white. They’re from Chicago, he’s from Canada. It’s all on reality TV. What could go wrong?

Inspired by Shaw’s Pygmalion,...
FULL LENGTH - Dorian Bell is a big deal. He’s a Canadian pop sweetheart, and he’s ready to be taken seriously. So his people hire his favorite hip-hop artists—Black and Alexand, the ‘bad boy’ rappers of Petty Young Goons—to help him toughen up his image. They’re black, he’s white. They’re from Chicago, he’s from Canada. It’s all on reality TV. What could go wrong?

Inspired by Shaw’s Pygmalion, P.Y.G. is a blistering and entertaining look at cultural and racial appropriation in a fictionalized exchange of ideologies, vernacular, and alleged street cred.
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P.Y.G. or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle

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  • Erika Hakmiller:
    31 Mar. 2020
    “ I saw P.Y.G. in 2019 at Jackalope Theatre in Chicago - and I’m so lucky that I did! This script uses music and humor to invite the audience into the lives of three men who all have varying relationships to masculinity, music, and race. Tearrance does an excellent job at presenting an array of opinions without being preachy and he really leans into the theatricality of the music industry to take the audience on a colorful and satisfying journey. If you have the opportunity to see this you absolutely should! ”
  • James Fleming:
    29 Oct. 2018
    “ This play is incredibly funny, pointed, and compassionate. I got to see a reading of this play at City Theatre's Momentum Festival in May 2018 and it brought the house down. Like most of Tearrance's work, it has empathy for each individual while also not letting anyone go by unscathed by his satire. A wonderful play - and I can't wait to see it in production at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. ”
  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center:
    26 Sep. 2018
    “ It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and their play P.Y.G. or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle as a finalist for our 2018 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 53 finalists out of more than 1,420 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. ”

Development History

Production History

  • University
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    The Juilliard School
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    2017