The actor "Slim" Martin reported that the first actor to portray this play's title character once told him "I created the role," not the author.
In 2009, the Wooster Group put on an acclaimed staging of this play, in which the title character was portrayed in a genderbent fashion by Kate Valk who had "thick, oily, makeup covering her face." The actor "Slim" Martin reported that the first actor to portray this play's title character once told him "I created the role," not the author. The second actor to play its title role memorized all of its lines in less than two weeks, and also simultaneously starred in another of its author's plays about Jim Harris, who resolves to not take the bar exam after an argument with his wife Ella. This play's title character was originally played by Charles Gilpin, but he dropped out and was replaced by Paul Robeson after an incident in which Gilpin used the word "coloreds" instead of the "n"-word. A Pullman porter who is supposedly impervious to everything but silver bullets is the title character of, for 10 points, what tragedy by Eugene O'Neill?
In 2009, the Wooster Group put on an acclaimed staging of this play, in which the title character was portrayed in a genderbent fashion by Kate Valk who had "thick, oily, makeup covering her face."
The Emperor Jones