Contemporary Black Theatre And Performance
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Contemporary Black Theatre And Performance
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Author : DeRon S. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-04-06
Contemporary Black Theatre And Performance written by DeRon S. Williams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with Performing Arts categories.
How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories? Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions to illuminate the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories. Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture. It encompasses dramatic analysis of Lynn Nottage's Sweat, Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, and acts of resistance during the Black Lives Matter summer 2020 highway protests. A series of conversations with artists and scholars are woven throughout the book's three sections, including with playwrights Christina Anderson and Donja R. Love, and Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.
Modern And Contemporary Black British Drama
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Author : Mary Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-16
Modern And Contemporary Black British Drama written by Mary Brewer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-16 with Performing Arts categories.
This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.
Contemporary Black British Playwrights
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Author : L. Goddard
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-17
Contemporary Black British Playwrights written by L. Goddard and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-17 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.
The African American Theatrical Body
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Author : Soyica Diggs Colbert
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-06
The African American Theatrical Body written by Soyica Diggs Colbert 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 2011-10-06 with Drama categories.
Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deploy performances to re-situate black people in time and space. The study examines African American plays past and present, including A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for Mister Charlie and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, demonstrating how African American dramatists stage black performances in their plays as acts of recuperation and restoration, creating sites that have the potential to repair the damage caused by slavery and its aftermath.
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.
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.
African American Performance And Theater History
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Author : Harry Justin Elam
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
African American Performance And Theater History written by Harry Justin Elam and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
An anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.
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.
The Performance Of Black Masculinity In Contemporary Black Drama
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Author : John Rogers Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Performance Of Black Masculinity In Contemporary Black Drama written by John Rogers Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with African American men in literature categories.
Contemporary Black American Playwrights And Their Plays
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Author : Bernard L. Peterson Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1988-05-17
Contemporary Black American Playwrights And Their Plays written by Bernard L. Peterson Jr. and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts. Reference Books Bulletin This directory and index, the first such volume devoted exclusively to contemporary black American dramatists, will have an important place in theatre collections. It captures and preserves an elusive part of artistic endeavor, giving access to literally thousands of dramatic works that would otherwise be lost to scholars and the public. Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present. The volume begins with an introductory essay surveying the history of contemporary black American drama. Playwrights, screenwriters, radio and television scriptwriters, and musical theatre collaborators are treated in individual entries that comprise the bulk of the book. The volume also supplies a bibliography of anthologies, books, and periodicals cited; mailing addresses for more than 200 of the playwrights; and title and subject indexes.