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A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White is a one-act play split into three scenes written by Adrienne Kennedy and first performed in 1976. Actors are made to look like famous film stars Marlon Brando, Paul Henreid, Montgomery Clift, Jean Peters, Bette Davis, and Shelley Winters.
The plays are each set in a different decade and aim to sketch the Black experience in the 20th century and "raise consciousness through theater" and echo "the poetry in the everyday language of Black America". [10] His writing of the Black experience always featured strong female characters and sometimes included elements of the supernatural.
Clay, as a Black man in the play, is a character who speaks and extends to the discussion of “double consciousness,” a term, idea, and concept that was first introduced by W. E. B. Du Bois's autoethnographic work, The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. Throughout the play, Lula’s lines, at many moments, suggested the conception of double ...
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Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 [1] – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary role representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Pearl Cleage (/ k l ɛ ɡ / KLEG; born December 7, 1948) is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist. [1] [2] She is currently the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre and at the Just Us Theater Company.