Black theater [electronic resource] : the making of a movement.


San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1978.
Added to CLICnet on 09/19/2015


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Part of the series Black studies in video
Notes:

  • A project of the national black touring circuit inc.
  • Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage. Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the Black community. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman and For Colored Girls … reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the Black theater of the present.
  • This edition in English.
  • Available from Alexander Street Press.

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Requested by Wittenbreer, B.

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