Israel Theo Hicks and August Wilson were involved with plays depicting what ethnicity?
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Israel Hicks Israel Theo Hicks (August 23, 1943 – July 3, 2010) was an American theatre director who produced works at regional theaters around the country and Off Broadway, and was best known for his stagings of the entire series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the U.S. during and following the Great Migration.
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August Wilson August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, "The Pittsburgh Cycle", for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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Eight (play) Eight is the first play written by Ella Hickson. Hickson created eight monologues ready to air at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival in August 2008. These monologue (of 15 minutes each) offer a state-of-the-nation group portrait. The official website for the performance describes it as "looking at what has happened to a generation that have grown up in a world where everything has become acceptable."
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The Strong Breed The Strong Breed is one of the best known plays by Wole Soyinka. It is a tragedy that ends with an individual sacrifice for the sake of the communal benefit. The play is centered on the tradition of egungun, a Yoruba festival tradition in which a scapegoat of the village carries out the evil of the community and is exiled from the civilization. Eman, the play's protagonist, takes on the role of "carrier", knowing it will result in beating and exile. He does this to spare a young simpleton the same fate. The ritual takes an unexpected turn as Eman flees. His pursuers set a trap for him that results in his death.
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Fanny's First Play Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi in London on 19 April 1911 and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. A second production opened on Broadway on September 16, 1912 for 256 performances. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year.
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Seven Guitars Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. "Seven Guitars" represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in "King Hedley II", set in the 1980s.
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The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players The Ethiopian Art Theatre — originally called the Chicago Folk Theatre, later the Colored Folk Theatre, also referred to as The Ethiopian Art Players — was an African American theatre company based out of Chicago, Illinois. The company was an influential albeit short-lived (1922/1923–1925) group founded during the Harlem Renaissance. There are differing views over the precise year that the company was founded, 1922 or 1923. The founder was Raymond O'Neil, a white theatre director, and its principal sponsor was Mrs. Sherwood Anderson, also white; though all its performers were African American. The organization was unique and controversial during its era, primarily for being one of the few African American Theatre Companies to perform European theatrical works, but also, among other things, for producing theatrical works of African American playwrights for both African American and Non-African American audiences.
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The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller".
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Field Day Theatre Company The Field Day Theatre Company began as an artistic collaboration between playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1980, the duo set out to launch a production of Friel's recently completed play, "Translations". They decided to rehearse and premiere the play in Derry with the hope of establishing a major theatre company for Northern Ireland. The production and performance of "Translations" generated a level of excitement and anticipation that unified, if only for a short time, the various factions of a divided community.
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The Woman in Black (play) The Woman in Black is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the book of the same name, which was published in 1983 by English author Susan Hill. The play is currently being produced by PW Productions, led by Peter Wilson. It is notable for only having two actors perform the whole play. It was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, in 1987. The production opened in London's West End in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after "The Mousetrap".
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Irvin C. Miller Irvin Colloden Miller (February 19, 1884 – February 27, 1975) was an African-American actor, playwright and vaudeville show writer and producer. He was responsible for successful theater shows including "Broadway Rastus" (1921), "Liza" (1922), "Dinah" (1923), which introduced the wildly popular black bottom dance, and "Desires of 1927" starring Adelaide Hall. For thirty years he directed the popular review, "Brown Skin Models", influenced by the "Ziegfeld Follies" but exclusively using black performers. "In the 1920s and 1930s, he was arguably the most well-established and successful producer of black musical comedy."
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A. B. Yehoshua Abraham B. Yehoshua (Hebrew: א.ב. יהושע‎ ‎ , born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The "New York Times" called him the "Israeli Faulkner."
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John Woodrow Wilson John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) was an American lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher whose art was driven by the political climate of his time. He grew up in Boston, where he cultivated his love for arts and studied in Mexico, New York. His reaction to art he saw as a teenager was that, "None of these people looked like me and just by omission the implication was that black people were not capable of being beautiful and true and precious", Wilson said. He eventually returned to Boston to teach.
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Tina Howe Tina Howe (born November 21, 1937) is an American playwright. In a career that spans more than four decades, Howe's best-known works include "Museum", "The Art of Dining", "Painting Churches", "Coastal Disturbances" and "Pride's Crossing".
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D.M.W. Greer D.M.W. Greer (born August 23, 1957) is an American playwright. Well known as the author of "Burning Blue", written in 1992 and premiered at The King's Head Theatre on London’s fringe in 1995.
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Rachel (play) Rachel is a play that was written in 1920 by African American teacher, playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958). Grimké submitted the play to the Drama Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). For the first production of the play the program read: "This is the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relative to the lamentable condition of the millions of Colored citizens in this free republic.".
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No Villain No Villain is a play written by Arthur Miller during his sophomore year of college in 1936, during spring break. This was his first work, reportedly written in six days in the hope of winning a $250 Hopwood Award in drama, the first of two that he won. "No Villain" explores Marxist theory and inner conflict through an individual facing ruin as a result of a strike.
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August Oddvar August Martinius Oddvar (1 August 1877 – 17 March 1964) was a Norwegian stage actor. He made his stage debut at the National Theatre in 1899, and played there all his career, which spanned sixty years.
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Jeff Barker (playwright) Jeff Barker (born 1954) is an American playwright, director, professor, and actor. He has written plays such as "Kin", "Unspoken for Time", and "September Bears". He is an advocate for the restoration of the ancient plays of Israel, co-creating "Terror Texts" (with composers Joseph Barker and Heather Josslyn-Cranson) and "And God Said" (with composer Ron Melrose).
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The God of Hell The God of Hell is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. The play was written in part as a response to the events of September 11, 2001, and has been described by Shepard as "a take-off on Republican fascism." The plot concerns Wisconsin dairy farmer Frank and his wife Emma, and how their peaceful middle-American life is destroyed by Mr. Welch, a mysterious, ultra-patriotic government employee in pursuit of Frank's old friend, Haynes.
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Taking Sides (play) Taking Sides is a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, about the post-war United States denazification investigation of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. Harwood drew "inter alia" on a detailed diary kept by Furtwängler of his interrogation sessions. Although the investigation that is the focus of the play resulted in formal charges being brought against Furtwängler, he was eventually cleared by the tribunal.
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The History Boys The History Boys is a play by British playwright Alan Bennett. The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in London on 18 May 2004. Its Broadway debut was on 23 April 2006 at the Broadhurst Theatre where 185 performances were staged before it closed on 1 October 2006.