African American Theatre
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- African Theatre Co.
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-NYC
-Formed by James Hewlett, AA singer/actor, in 1820s
-Performed at African Grove, started by William Henry Brown - King Shotaway
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-first play written by AA, William Henry Brown
-performed be African Co. in African Grove - Ira Aldridge
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-Good career in England as Shakespeare actor
-Greatest tragedian of his time
-famous role of othello
-buried w/ full state honors for best actors - Minstrelsy
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-originated in plantation culture
-performed in black face
-music folk songs
-most popular form of entertainment 1860s-90s - Paul Roberson
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-Shakespeare/tragedy, played Othello
-did better in England
-Known for Showboat - Early Black Musicals
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The Creole Show
The Octoroons
*financially successful - Early black theatre companies
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pekin players
lafayette players - The Harlem Renaissance
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-1919-1935
-WWI to Great Depression
-Black theatre ALL about "blackness" - Langston Hughes
- -poet, writer of Harlem Renaissance
- W.E.B. DuBois
- critic of Harlem Renaissance
- Zora Meale
- poet, writer of Harlem renaissance
- Federal Theater Project
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-The depression
-attempt to support arts
-MacBeth (1936) set in Haiti and directed by Olsen Wells - Lorraine Hansberry
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-A Raisin in the Sun
-AA and youngest person to have successful drama on broadway - Revolutionary Black Theatre Movement
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-1960s-early 70s
-angry agressive political
-Amin Bavaka: The Dutchman
-Ed Bulling: The Taking of Miss Jamie - Charles Fuller
- "A Soldiers Play" (1982)
- August Wilson
- "Fences" (1985)
- Anna Deverse Smith
- "Fires in the Mirror" (1992)
- Gay theatre
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-emerged in late 1960s
-queer theatre - Drag
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lady bunny
rupaul
liskyna - Camp
- form of humor popular among queers of many kinds, highly satirical sometimes to the point of meanness
- The Boys in the Band
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-by Mart Crowley
-8 gay men from different backgrounds
-shows world where homosexuality is both sin and newly emerged gay identities
-uses camp - Normal Heart
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-Larry Kramer
-one of first AIDS plays
-critique of governments inaction
-criticizes gay culture for promiscuity - Angels in America Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
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-by Tony Kushner
-addresses AIDS, McCarthyism, religion, America's desiny, the Reagan era, rejection in gay/straight relationsips - Jeffery
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-by Paul Rubnick
-campy comedy about finding love in the days of AIDS - Love! Valour! Compassion!
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-by Terrance McWaly
-contemporary version of Boys in the Band
-deals w/ aids, relationsihps, and infidelity
-tony for best play in '94