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This collection explores an array of themes connected to Black American life. Many of the included works contain elements of social criticism and messages of anti-racism. All but one were written in the early 1970s a "a socially and politically dynamic moment in the nation's history and a renaissance decade for black theater." [2]
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words, is a play about the life of American writer Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her own writings. Hansberry was best known for her 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun , the first show on Broadway written by an African-American woman.
The play is based on the religious doctrine of Yakub as taught by the Nation of Islam, and it describes the origin of white people according to this doctrine. [2] A Black Mass, written at the beginning of Baraka's involvement in black nationalism and the Black Arts Movement, was a turning point in the artist's
Black Souls is a play in six scenes by Annie Nathan Meyer. The play depicts the lynching of an innocent black man on a college campus and concerns themes of miscegenation and bigotry in the Southern United States in the post World War I era. The work is one of the first "lynching dramas" written by a white woman, and for this reason the play ...
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller is the story of the murder of a black soldier on a Southern army base during World War II, and the subsequent investigation by a black army captain. It examines black pride and black self-hatred, and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play awards.
It was not until after the American Civil War that all-Black theatre companies began to emerge again. [3] The African Theatre presented a programme of classical plays, popular plays, ballet, music and opera. [5] The theater produced Shakespearean works, as well as plays written by Brown. [6] Brown also wrote a number of original plays for them ...