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Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, nationally recognized for her work in African-Canadian theatre. Sears has many credits in writing and editing highly acclaimed dramas such as Afrika Solo, the first stage play to be written by a Canadian woman of African descent; its sequel Harlem Duet; and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God. [1]
Adobe theatre company was an off-off-Broadway theatre that operated from 1991 to 2004 in New York City, producing original plays aimed at Generation X audiences. Led by artistic director Jeremy Dobrish and producing director Christopher Roberts, the company’s critical and popular successes included Notions in Motion (1997) and Duet!
That is, events in Harlem Duet take place before the events in Shakespeare's story, although the time-frames in Harlem Duet are subsequent to those in Shakespeare's drama. Shakespeare is a god in the theatre. He is the most famous playwright in the history of the world, and Othello is the most well-known Black character in all of theatre.
A list of famous duos who originated in novels, books, poems, theatrical plays or oral tradition. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Latin: Interludium de clerico et puella) is one of the earliest known secular plays in English, first performed c. 1300. [1] The text is written in vernacular English, in an East Midlands dialect that suggests either Lincoln or Beverley as its origin, although its title is given in Latin. [2]
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations is a descriptive list which was first proposed by Georges Polti in 1895 to categorize every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance. [1] Polti analyzed classical Greek texts, plus classical and contemporaneous French works. He also analyzed a handful of non-French authors.
The two characters Ben and Gus in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter. A two-hander is a term for a play, film, or television programme with only two main characters. [1] The two characters in question often display differences in social standing or experiences, differences that are explored and possibly overcome as the story unfolds.
Duet for One is a 1986 British drama film adapted from the play, a two-hander by Tom Kempinski, about a world-famous concert violinist named Stephanie Anderson who is suddenly struck with multiple sclerosis. [3] It is set in London, and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.