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African Theatre Co.
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-NYC
-Formed by James Hewlett, AA singer/actor, in 1820s -Performed at African Grove, started by William Henry Brown |
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King Shotaway
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-first play written by AA, William Henry Brown
-performed be African Co. in African Grove |
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Ira Aldridge
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-Good career in England as Shakespeare actor
-Greatest tragedian of his time -famous role of othello -buried w/ full state honors for best actors |
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Minstrelsy
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-originated in plantation culture
-performed in black face -music folk songs -most popular form of entertainment 1860s-90s |
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Paul Roberson
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-Shakespeare/tragedy, played Othello
-did better in England -Known for Showboat |
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Early Black Musicals
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The Creole Show
The Octoroons *financially successful |
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Early black theatre companies
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pekin players
lafayette players |
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The Harlem Renaissance
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-1919-1935
-WWI to Great Depression -Black theatre ALL about "blackness" |
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Langston Hughes
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-poet, writer of Harlem Renaissance
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W.E.B. DuBois
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critic of Harlem Renaissance
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Zora Meale
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poet, writer of Harlem renaissance
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Federal Theater Project
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-The depression
-attempt to support arts -MacBeth (1936) set in Haiti and directed by Olsen Wells |
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Lorraine Hansberry
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-A Raisin in the Sun
-AA and youngest person to have successful drama on broadway |
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Revolutionary Black Theatre Movement
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-1960s-early 70s
-angry agressive political -Amin Bavaka: The Dutchman -Ed Bulling: The Taking of Miss Jamie |
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Charles Fuller
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"A Soldiers Play" (1982)
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August Wilson
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"Fences" (1985)
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Anna Deverse Smith
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"Fires in the Mirror" (1992)
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Gay theatre
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-emerged in late 1960s
-queer theatre |
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Drag
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lady bunny
rupaul liskyna |
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Camp
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form of humor popular among queers of many kinds, highly satirical sometimes to the point of meanness
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The Boys in the Band
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-by Mart Crowley
-8 gay men from different backgrounds -shows world where homosexuality is both sin and newly emerged gay identities -uses camp |
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Normal Heart
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-Larry Kramer
-one of first AIDS plays -critique of governments inaction -criticizes gay culture for promiscuity |
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Angels in America Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
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-by Tony Kushner
-addresses AIDS, McCarthyism, religion, America's desiny, the Reagan era, rejection in gay/straight relationsips |
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Jeffery
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-by Paul Rubnick
-campy comedy about finding love in the days of AIDS |
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Love! Valour! Compassion!
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-by Terrance McWaly
-contemporary version of Boys in the Band -deals w/ aids, relationsihps, and infidelity -tony for best play in '94 |