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Alice Childress

Trouble in Mind

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Painfully relevant... One is gradually struck by how bracingly prophetic the late playwright's script turns out to be.” —Variety Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play's stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would sanitize” the p… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63670-016-8
  • EAN: 9781636700168
  • Produktnummer: 37172362
  • Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Alice Childress was a playwright, actress, and novelist. She was the first Black woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City. Childress's works include the plays Wedding Band and Wine in the Wilderness, and the young-adult novel A Hero Ain't Nothing but a Sandwich.

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