Big White Fog

Informationen zum Autor Theodore Ward! born 1902 in Louisiana! one of 11 children! joined the Chicago branch of the Federal Theatre! where he wrote Big White Fog! staged in New York by the Negro Playwrights Company! which he co-founded with Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson. He wrote 30 more plays - including Our Land! which ran on Broadway - before his death in Chicago in 1883. He was the the first black dramatist to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Klappentext A searing play by a forgotten black writer about family life and false dreams. Zusammenfassung A poignant family drama set in Chicago against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times.

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Ward
• Publisher: Hern, Nick Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.05.2007
• EAN: 9781854595959
• ISBN: 978-1-85459-595-9
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: NHB Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Amerika, Plays / Drama, DRAMA / American / General