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Absalom Kumalo: Stephen's son who left home to look for Stephen's sister Gertrude and who murdered Arthur Jarvis. His name is an allusion to Absalom, wayward son of the Biblical King David. [5] Gertrude Kumalo: The young sister of Stephen who becomes a prostitute in Johannesburg and leads a dissolute life.
Set in South Africa in October 1946, before the official implementation of apartheid, this is the story of church minister Stephen Kumalo (James Earl Jones) who is requested from his village to Johannesburg. There he discovers that his son Absalom has been arrested for the murder of a white man.
Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton.The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949; it was the composer's last work for the stage before he died the following year.
Cry, the Beloved Country was the first major film shot in South Africa, with interiors filmed in the UK at Shepperton Studios. [2] As South Africa was under apartheid, stars Sidney Poitier and Canada Lee and producer/director Zoltan Korda informed the South African immigration authorities that Poitier and Lee were not actors but were Korda's indentured servants.
Directed by Daniel Mann, the film follows a Zulu preacher, Reverend Stephen Kumalo (Brock Peters), in his journey to Johannesburg to search for his long-missing son, Absalom (Clifton Davis). He discovers his son is a paroled felon living in a shantytown with his pregnant girlfriend ( Melba Moore ).
Absalom was the name of Stephen Kumalo's son in the novel. Like the Biblical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events. Absalom kills and murders a man, and also meets an untimely death. [57]
Peters and Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Brock Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) [1] was an American actor and singer, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.
By the 1990s, he was also a regular at the Boston Lyric Opera, performing roles such as Stephen Kumalo in Lost in the Stars, by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson; Master Ford in Verdi's Falstaff; and Escamillo in Carmen on the Common, a public park production of Bizet's Carmen performed for an estimated 140,000 people.