Advantages And Disadvantages Of Black African American Theatre

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Through, long times the best place in the world is the theatre. The man who canshow some his problems through his life, and he tries to discuss these problems. Therefore he finds the stage best place to appear thesedifficulties or disadvantage as a sort of arts. He makes the balance between the advantage anddisadvantage,thus he puts some solutions for these disadvantages. The arts are such as a genre to solve these disadvantages thatit's appear in societies.Some writers try to put many ways to discuss and solve problems through their works. The theatre art is a genre so, it reflects a fundamental need for understanding how humanity generates meaning through its different languages and media. A process of generating meaning assumedly takes place in the case of each theatre experience, in the actual. Confrontation between a theatre performance and onlooker. (Rozik,E. 2008).
Through that time, the theatre of the black is the place to discover talents of people and critics of their abilities to create new genre through lifetime, the theatre as a critical venue for affecting and effecting black cultural politics. Thus the black society controlled theatre to articulate a distinct black identity.(Graham, M and Jerry W. Ward, JR.2011).

2. The Theatre of the Blacks:-
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he is regarded nearest one of playwright to the problems of the black community ,to highlight on the troubles of the dilemma human beings. To bring new thing into the popular American stage the gritty specifics of the lives of his poor, the trouble of people in that time . He describes universal truths about the struggle for dignity , love, security and happiness of African American

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