The Blacks (play), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 32 relations: Cambridge University Press, Charles Gordone, Charles Gross, Cicely Tyson, David Bradby, Edmund White, Ethel Ayler, France, Gene Frankel, Godfrey Cambridge, Helen Martin, James Earl Jones, Jean Genet, Kangaroo court, Les Blancs, Louis Gossett Jr., Maya Angelou, New York City, Off-Broadway, Paris, Patricia Zipprodt, Play (theatre), Playwright, Raymond St. Jacques, Roger Blin, Roscoe Lee Browne, St. Mark's Playhouse, The Balcony, The Independent, Theatre of the absurd, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Whiteface (performance).

2. 1959 plays
3. African and Black nationalism
4. Plays by Jean Genet

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Charles Gordone

Charles Edward Gordone (October 12, 1925 – November 16, 1995) was an American playwright, actor, director, and educator.

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Charles Gross

Charles Gross (born 13 May 1934) is an American film and TV composer, living in New York City.

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Cicely Tyson

Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women.

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David Bradby

David Bradby (27 February 1942 – 17 January 2011) was a British drama and theatre academic with particular research interests in French theatre, Modernist / Postmodernist theatre, the role of the director and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics.

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Ethel Ayler

Ethyl Spraggins Ayler (May 1, 1930 – November 18, 2018) was an American character actress with a career spanning over five decades.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gene Frankel

Eugene V. Frankel (December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene.

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Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was an American stand-up comic and actor.

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Helen Martin

Helen Dorothy Martin (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television.

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James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor.

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Jean Genet

Jean Genet (–) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

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Kangaroo court

Kangaroo court is an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc.

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Les Blancs

Les Blancs ("The Whites") is an English-language play by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

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Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American actor.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Off-Broadway

An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Patricia Zipprodt

Patricia Zipprodt (February 24, 1925 – July 17, 1999) was an American costume designer.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Raymond St. Jacques

Raymond St.

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Roger Blin

Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director.

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Roscoe Lee Browne

Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director.

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St. Mark's Playhouse

St.

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The Balcony

The Balcony (Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The Blacks (play) and the Balcony are off-Broadway plays and plays by Jean Genet.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Theatre of the absurd

The theatre of the absurd (théâtre de l'absurde) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

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Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East (commonly referred to as just Stratford East) is a 460 seat Victorian producing theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.

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Whiteface (performance)

Whiteface is a type of performance in which a dark person uses makeup in order to appear white-skinned.

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See also

1959 plays

• A Majority of One
• A Night Out (play)
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Archangels Don't Play Pinball
• Aunt Edwina
• Becket
• Burst of Summer
• Caught Napping
• Embers
• Father Setubal
• Goodbye Charlie (play)
• I, Don Quixote
• King Kong (1959 musical)
• Look After Lulu!
• Merely Players (play)
• Night of the Ding-Dong
• One Way Pendulum (play)
• Rashomon (play)
• Rhinoceros (play)
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards
• Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
• Silent Night, Lonely Night
• Sive (play)
• Spring and Port Wine
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Tchin-Tchin
• The Bastard Country
• The Blacks (play)
• The Complaisant Lover
• The Condemned of Altona
• The Connection (play)
• The Country Boy (play)
• The Death of Bessie Smith
• The Heart Is Highland
• The Lion and the Jewel
• The Long and the Short and the Tall (play)
• The Miracle Worker
• The Miracle Worker (play)
• The Piccadilly Bushman
• The Possessed (play)
• The Sandbox (play)
• The Tenth Man (Chayefsky play)
• Trouble in the Works

African and Black nationalism

• 1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking
• African Americans in Africa
• African Renaissance
• African nationalism
• African socialism
• Ancient Egyptian race controversy
• Back-to-Africa movement
• Black Arts Movement
• Black Consciousness Movement
• Black Lives Matter
• Black Power
• Black nationalism
• Black orientalism
• Black power
• Black separatism
• Black supremacy
• Conscious Community
• Door of Return
• Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon
• From Black Power to Hip Hop
• Garveyism
• H. Vinton Plummer
• Hoteps
• Jitu Weusi
• Négritude
• Nkrumaism
• Noirism
• Pan African Association
• Pan-African flag
• Pan-Africanism
• Rastafari
• Revolutionary nationalism
• Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud
• The Big Six (Ghana)
• The Blacks (play)
• Timeline of the Black Power movement
• Ubuntu philosophy
• William L. Van Deburg
• Zanempilo Community Health Care Centre

Plays by Jean Genet

• Deathwatch (play)
• The Balcony
• The Blacks (play)
• The Maids
• The Screens

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blacks_(play)

Also known as A Clown Show, Clown Show, Les Nègres, Nègres, The Blacks: A Clown Show.