Radical Black theatre in the New Deal Kate Dossett

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dossett, Kate, author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)--History.

Federal Theatre Project (U.S.).

African American theater--United States--History--20th century.

African American theater.

Physical Description:

xv, 338 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020].

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Leaping for freedom: black theatre manuscripts & black performance communities

Our actors may become our emancipators: race and realism in Stevedore

They love to watch us dance: exposing the mask in black living newspapers

Wrestling with heroes: John Henry and Bigger Thomas from page to stage

Garveyism, communism, gender trouble: Theodore Ward's Big white fog

Free at lass!: plays that turn out well for Harlem

Making space

Black federal theatre manuscripts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Forrest Performing Arts Collection.

ISBN:

9781469654416

1469654415

9781469654423

1469654423

OCLC:

1119471434