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3) The national black drama anthology: eleven plays from America's leading African-American theaters
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This anthology celebrates the diversity of black voices now writing for theater.
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African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they...
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At the time of her death in 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's reputation as one of America's leading playwrights rested primarily on one play, "A Raisin in the Sun", a major work of our time. Until the off-Broadway production in 1969 of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", Miss Hansberry had become a part of theatrical history which is to say, almost forgotten.. It was assumed that nothing in her work was relevant to the sixties. But that assumption could only...
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This anthology contains 19 plays written before 1950 by seven African-American women. Perkins places the women and their works in a literary and historical context. The volume includes plays by Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Graham, May Miller, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary P. Burrill, Eulalie Spence, and Marita Bonner. These seven women had been part of the Washington, D.C. community at some point, had either studied at Howard University, taught at...
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First published in 1954, this three-act-play by James Baldwin looks at the role of a church in an African-American family and the effect of a poverty born of racial prejudice on an African-American community. Margaret Alexander, the pastor of a "corner church" in Harlem, begins to lose everything once her long-estranged (and now ailing) husband, Luke, returns for a visit. He reveals a truth that causes Margaret to lose not only her church, but also...
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Critical essays on the history, impact and future of the black theater movement in the United States. Volume one traces its historical origins from its African and American roots and studies important black plays and individual playwrights from the Harlem Renaissance down to Ed Bullins. Volume two examines black theater companies and raises some of the moral and aesthetic questions they pose for audiences and critics, black and white. The contributors...
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