THTR 1020 Lecture : Week 14 Theatre1020
Document Summary
African american theatre: roots( not that roots, woole soyinka, the first african to win a noble for literature, argues that the theatre traditions of ancient greece are. African in origin: similar rituals, similar patheons of gods and goddesses, yoruba, african dance drama, based on ritual, spread to along the slave trade routes. Blowback: white americans were violently opposed to groups like the african. Harlem renaissance: black artists responding to the racial depictions, creating their own artistic representations of black life and philosophy, the chip woman"s fortune by willis richardson, 1923. The first serious play by an african american playwright produced on broadway. Black arts movement- 1960s: amiri baraka: black arts repertory theatre/school- 1965, self-representation: by, for, and about, encouraged black separatism, aesthetic movement- arm of the black power movement. Playwrights: leroi jones- founder of black arts movement, amiri baraka, ed bullins, nikki giovanni, harold cruse, adrienne kennedy.
