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The Blacks: A Clown Show

American Negro Playwright Theatre

July 19-July 29, 2007

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Tennessee State University's Department of Communications Summer Stock Theatre Program presents The Blacks: A Clown Show, by Jean Genet and directed by American Negro Playwright Theatre's Barry Scott. The Blacks: A Clown Show was written in 1958 at the request of a black actor. But Jean Genet, a white, French novelist and playwright, wrote the drama focusing on a troupe of black actors, who come together to perform a ritual that requires the corpse of a white woman. Originally written for an all-black cast, The Blacks offered a new voice to black theatre that heralded the blunt and confrontational tone of the Black Arts Theatre movement. An absurdist play, The Blacks breaks with regular conventions of theatre production. 'Genet has more stage directions than dialogue in this play,' explains Scott. 'It is not so much about what is being said and done as it is how it is being said, and how it is being done.'

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  July 19-July 29, 2007

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  Thursday-Saturday 7:00pm, Sunday 3:00pm

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  TSU - Tennessee State University

  3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard Nashville, TN 37209

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