Looking for Leroy / a play by Larry Muhammad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muhammad, Larry, author.

Series:

Black Drama, Third Edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Black authors--Drama.

Drama.

Playwriting--Drama.

Playwriting.

Mentoring in the arts--Drama.

Mentoring in the arts.

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014--Drama.

Baraka, Amiri.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

What is Black theatre? How is it defined and by whom? What is the relationship between the Black dramatist, their creation and the Black community in general? Looking For Leroy explores these questions through the career of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, arguably the most important Black playwright of the 20th century and one who intended his art have social impact. Baraka's ideological shifts -- Beatnik, Black nationalist, Marxist -- were also reflected in his plays. In Looking For Leroy, a young theatre intern struggles to comprehend the artistic metamorphoses of his hero, a great playwright at the pinnacle of his powers. While the acolyte assists with play development, his casual observations infuriate his mentor and the two heatedly debate the fundamental questions of theatre, examine the fungible nature of aesthetics, question whether artistic expression is ever nonideological and weight the added responsibility of artists of color.

Notes:

Title from cover image (viewed August 11, 2022).

Characters: Taj, Baraka.

OCLC:

1347496468