American Moor (Modern Plays)
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- Synopsis
- Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,Nor set down aught in malice...The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare's Othello, race, and America… not necessarily in that order.American Moor is a play that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare's character, Othello. It is a play about race in America, but it is also a play about who gets to make art, who gets to play Shakespeare, about the qualitative decline of the American theatre, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love. It is an often funny, often heartbreaking examination of the pall of privileged perspective that is ultimately so injurious to us all.Originally written in 2012, American Moor has been seen across America, including a successful run off-Broadway in 2019.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350165328
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350165304
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 03/31/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Keith Hamilton Cobb, 2
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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