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Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition Vol 1
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Author : James V. Hatch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1996-03
Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition Vol 1 written by James V. Hatch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Drama categories.
A collection of 51 plays that features previously unpublished works, contemporary plays by women, and the modern classics.
A History Of African American Theatre
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Author : Errol G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17
A History Of African American Theatre written by Errol G. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Drama categories.
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Black Theatre
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Author : Paul Carter Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-08
Black Theatre written by Paul Carter Harrison and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-08 with Performing Arts categories.
Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."
Barbara Ann Teer And The National Black Theatre
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Author : Lundeana Marie Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Barbara Ann Teer And The National Black Theatre written by Lundeana Marie Thomas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with History categories.
While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and audience, and spectacle. The National Black Theatre's major achievement is the creation of an original art form that helps African Americans identify with their roots and invites spontaneous audience interaction. The study offers the National Black Theatre as a model African American community theater with valuable lessons for other theaters. The innovative methods of the National Black Theatre provide a model for enlightening and sensitizing audiences to cultural diversity. A pioneering institution, the National Black Theatre has proven itself over its 25 year history to be a cultural treasure and the quintessential theater in Harlem. Also includes maps.(Bibliography, and index; foreword by Dr. Winona Fletcher, Professor Emeritus of Theater and Drama and Afro-American Studies; Founder of the National Black Theatre)
Black Theatre
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Author : Carlton W. Molette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Black Theatre written by Carlton W. Molette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African American theater categories.
Black Theatre
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Author : Carlton W. Molette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Black Theatre written by Carlton W. Molette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African American theater categories.
Black Theater City Life
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Author : Macelle Mahala
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Black Theater City Life written by Macelle Mahala and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.
Black Theatre In Britain
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Author : A. Ruth Tompsett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Black Theatre In Britain written by A. Ruth Tompsett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Performing Arts categories.
First Published in 1998. Performing Arts International provides a forum for a wide range of writing concerning theory and practice of time-based arts around the world. This is Volume 1, Part 2 and includes a collection of articles and papers from the Black Theatre in Higher Education Conference in London April 1994 including topics as a black aesthetic, developments, arts education and cultural diversity, trends in Black writing for the theatres, and young practitioners.
Radical Black Theatre In The New Deal
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Author : Kate Dossett
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Radical Black Theatre In The New Deal written by Kate Dossett and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with History categories.
Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took on theatre work usually reserved for whites, staged black versions of "white" classics, and developed radical new dramas. In this fresh history of the FTP Negro Units, Kate Dossett examines what she calls the black performance community—a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists—who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for the Negro Units and other theatre companies from New York to Seattle. Tracing how African American playwrights and troupes developed these manuscripts and how they were then contested, revised, and reinterpreted, Dossett argues that these texts constitute an archive of black agency, and understanding their history allows us to consider black dramas on their own terms. The cultural and intellectual labor of black theatre artists was at the heart of radical politics in 1930s America, and their work became an important battleground in a turbulent decade.
The Methuen Drama Book Of Post Black Plays
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Author : Eisa Davis
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-02
The Methuen Drama Book Of Post Black Plays written by Eisa Davis and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with Drama categories.
'Post-black' refers to an emerging trend within black arts to find new and multiple expressions of blackness, unburdened by the social and cultural expectations of blackness of the past and moving beyond the conventional binary of black and white. Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, gender, and sexuality. They engage and critique current definitions of black and African-American identity, as well as previous limitations placed on what constitutes blackness and black theatre. Written by the emerging stars of American theatre such as Eisa Davis and Marcus Gardley, the plays explore themes as varied as family and individuality, alienation and gentrification, and reconciliation and belonging. They demonstrate a wide-range of formal and structural innovations for the American theatre, and reflect the important ways in which contemporary playwrights are expanding the American dramatic canon with new and diverse means of representation. Edited by two leading US scholars in black drama, Harry J. Elam Jr (Stanford) and Douglas A. Jones Jr (Princeton), this cutting edge anthology gathers together some of the most exciting new American plays, selected by a rigorous academic backbone and explored in depth by supporting critical material.