{"id":51457,"date":"2017-02-08T22:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51457"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:14:18","slug":"selected-plays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51457","title":{"rendered":"Selected Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selected Plays<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Northwestern University Press<\/a>
\nApril 2011
\n272 pages
\n6 x 9
\nTrade Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-2751-7<\/p>\n

Alice Childress (1916\u20141994)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Kathy A. Perkins<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Theatre
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City<\/a> (Gold Through the Trees<\/em>, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie<\/a> for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind<\/em>, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American drama. She herself rejected an emphasis on the pioneering aspects of her career, saying that \u201cit\u2019s almost like it\u2019s an honor rather than a disgrace\u201d and that she should \u201cbe the fiftieth and the thousandth by this point\u201d\u2014a remark that suggests the complexity and singularity of vision to be found in her plays. Childress worked as an actress before turning to playwriting in 1949, and she was a political activist all of her life.<\/p>\n

Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, the plays collected here are the ones Childress herself believed were her best, and offer a realistic portrait of the racial inequalities and social injustices that characterized these decades. Her plays often feature strong-willed female protagonists whose problems bring into harsh relief the restrictions faced by African American women. This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the work of a major playwright whose impact on the American theater was profound and lasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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