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Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doublingWinner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award "A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The play focuses heavily on his white girlfriend and the controversy their relationship caused. He was actually sent to jail because of the relationship at one point.
I had a hard time getting past some of the language, for example…
“Stop beatin on de cullud.”
“You juss nacheral.”
“Git de wimmins inside.”
I think this is just one those plays that does a wonderful job representing a period in time, but after a few decades it loses its punch. ( )