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- worked on Broadway - first time to have African Americans work, direct, and act on Broadway
- did musicals; operettas - first to perform without 'black face' and in contemporary clothes - worked on Broadway - first time to have African Americans work, direct, and act on Broadway - did musicals; operettas - first to perform without 'black face' and in contemporary clothes |
Bert Williams and George Walker
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- prior to them it was very stereotypical (tried to make black people look like slaves)
- paradym shift for how African American performs were seen and perceived' |
Bert Williams and George Walker
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- conceived b/c of the success of Bert and George
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Pekin Theatre and Lafayette Players
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- Did a new play EVERY week until 1932 (17 years of constantly producing)
- provided a huge amount of opportunity for African American performers and writers - did plays that were being done on Broadway as well (to bring the Broadway successes to their Af Am audiences) |
Lafayette Players
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1915 in Harlem
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Lafayette Players
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- freaked the govt out by:
people said they were employing communists did color-blind casting (didn't care about race) |
Federal Theatre Project
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shut down in 1937
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Federal Theatre Project
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- Jobs program (during the Great Depression) took place to get theatre professionals back to work
- opened up 22 African Am theatre companies around the country - performed mostly African American plays; (employeed thousands) |
Federal Theatre Project
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1950s in NY
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Greenwich Mews
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- off Broadway theatre (one tier below Broadway)
- did work excessible and popular but not a Broadway production - exclusive color-blind casting - cast the right person for the role no matter what their skin color - very controversial - notorious for the first professional staging |
Greenwich Mews
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- off Broadway theatre (one tier below Broadway)
- did work excessible and popular but not a Broadway production - exclusive color-blind casting - cast the right person for the role no matter what their skin color - very controversial - notorious for the first professional staging |
Greenwich Mews
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wrote Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry
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- lived only to be 35 years old (died of cancer)
- studied art in college - after graduating, joined Harlem based magazine called 'Freedom' and becomes a writer |
Lorraine Hansberry
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based on a poem by langston hughes
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raisin in the sun
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african woman that on March 1959 opened on Broadway.
first African American writer, youngest playwriter, and 5th woman to win the NY drama critic circle award for best play. |
lorraine hansberry
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- toured rural Louisiana doing educational plays on Civil Rights
- VERY dangerous and rebellious |
free southern theatre
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- before him, most African American plays are realistic
- wanted non-realism and experimental; used allegory and imagery to try to create a diff experience for the audience |
amiri baraka
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- 'The Douchman' and 'Slaveship' (1967) were his most famous
- won multiple awards for his writing - founded Spirit House Movers and Players in Newark, NJ - founded Black Art Repertoire Theatre in Harlem - still a figure in African American theatre today |
amiri baraka
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wrote Fences
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August Wilson
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- 1980s and 1990s, the major African American playwright
- wrote 10 plays; each place took place during a different decade during the 20th century and highlighted the African American experience during that decade - took place in the place he grew up in in Pittsburgh |
August Wilson
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- writes about 'the black experience in America and explore them in terms of the life I know best; those things that are common to all cultures" - wanted to reach out to everyone and have a universal appeal
- sense of legacy - real sense of poetry to his lines |
August Wilson
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- writes about 'the black experience in America and explore them in terms of the life I know best; those things that are common to all cultures" - wanted to reach out to everyone and have a universal appeal
- sense of legacy - real sense of poetry to his lines |
August Wilson
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