Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology

Name: Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology
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Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology compiles a powerful selection of plays and monologues from the biennial National Black Theatre Festival held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This culturally significant event showcases Black theatre companies and artists through performances, workshops, films, and poetry. The anthology features three full-length plays—Maid's Door by Cheryl L. Davis, Berta, Berta by Angelica Cheri, and Looking for Leroy by Larry Muhammad—alongside seventeen poignant monologues and scenes from festival artists including Jackie Alexander, Ifa Bayeza, and Pearl Cleage.
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This anthology is essential for enthusiasts of Black theatre, scholars of American cultural arts, playwrights, actors, and students seeking a profound insight into contemporary Black playwrights and dramatic works. It offers rich material for theatrical study and performance.

A new collection of plays and monologues from the biennial festival celebrating and supporting Black American theatre.

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This new collection brings together plays and monologues from the National Black Theatre Festival, one of the most historic and culturally significant events—not only in the history of Black theatre but in American theatre. Held every two years in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this gathering of Black theatre companies and artists from around the country and across the globe features an extraordinary array of performances, workshops, films, spoken-word poetry, and more.

Established in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin and the North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology includes three full-length plays produced at the Festival:

Maid's Door by Cheryl L. Davis

Berta, Berta by Angelica Cheri

Looking for Leroy by Larry Muhammad

This collection also includes seventeen monologues and scenes selected from each year of the Festival, featuring the artists and playwrights: Jackie Alexander, Ifa Bayeza, Pearl Cleage, Kamilah Forbes, Endesha Ida Mae Holland, Javon Johnson, Rhodessa Jones, and others.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636700038

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Contributors:

Edited by Michael D. Dinwiddie

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 500g

Pages: 300

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Michael Dinwiddie is a professor at New York University. A dramatist whose works have been produced in New York, regional, and educational theater, he has been playwright-in-residence at Michigan State University and St. Louis University and taught writing courses at the College of New Rochelle, Florida A&M University, SUNY Stony Brook, California State University at San Bernardino, and Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He spent a year at Touchstone Pictures as a Walt Disney Fellow and worked as a staff writer on ABC-TV's Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. He was awarded a 1995 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting. Professor Dinwiddie received a 2005 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of exceptional teaching inside and outside of the classroom setting.