What the Wine-sellers Buy Plus Three

What the Wine-sellers Buy Plus Three
Author: Ron Milner
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780814329290

A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of being in the world. The four Milner plays collected here - Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition - are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture. Checkmates (1990) explores the relationships of two Black couples who are generations apart in age and attitudes - one new at the games and realities of love, the other experienced. What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974), a coming-of-age tale set on Detroit streets in the 1950s, looks at the conflict between the lure of the streets and a mother's teachings. The highly innovative Jazz-Set is Milner's tribute to jazz - a play that works like a jazz composition, where the musicians and music are one and characters' life experiences and memories are "played" as music. Urban Transition (1995) picks up on themes introduced in What the Wine-Sellers Buy to examine how the drug subculture has made its way into current mainstream culture. Ron Milner is one of America's most prolific and foremost playwrights. His plays have become required texts in many of the emerging repertory theaters of the Black and progressive theater communities. Four Plays will be of interest to students of the theater, theater scholars, and those interested in African American and American literature.

African American Dramatists

African American Dramatists
Author: Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2004-10-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313052891

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.

RDV'S INTERNET ANTHLOGY PLUS

RDV'S INTERNET ANTHLOGY PLUS
Author: Regardless Victory
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2009-05-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1105661385

A strategic book based on internet morals, websites, writing, poetry, public and social morals.These ethics are written by Regardless Devon Victory. www.coherstcoherstlive

Historical Dictionary of African American Theater

Historical Dictionary of African American Theater
Author: Anthony D. Hill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1538117290

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.

The Wine Bible

The Wine Bible
Author: Karen MacNeil
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781563054341

Discusses the history of wine, grape varieties, winemaking techniques, and vintages.

Statutes

Statutes
Author: University of Oxford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1845
Genre:
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The A to Z of African American Theater

The A to Z of African American Theater
Author: Anthony D. Hill
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2009-09-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810870614

African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.