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This collection of essays seeks to present articles that examine the early ventures of the 1960s and 1970s in the progressive theatre of identity with a new contemporary view considering the intersection of race, gender, ethnicity, economic class, and sexual orientation.
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Introduction
PART I: Albee & LGBTQ Theatre & Performance, Ageism, and Latinx DramaChapter 1. The New Conservatory Theatre Story: Activist Action Moments in Progressive Theatres of Identity
Chapter 2. Reviving Medusa's Revenge, New York City's First Lesbian Theater Space
Chapter 3. "Different Rewards": Queer Gerontological Models in the Dramaturgy of Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Lanford Wilson
Chapter 4. The Making of an American Master Playwright: A History of Lanford Wilson's Home Free! and the Albee-Barr-Wilder Playwrights Unit
Chapter 5. Whatever happened to Grandma?: Women and Aging in Edward Albee's
The Sandbox (1960) and
The American Dream (1961)
Chapter 6. "I know this game, you're playing. I know it very well": Albee as Influence and Counterpoint to Crowley's
The Boys in the BandChapter 7. Albee, Fornés, and the Next Generation of Grotesque Theater
PART II: Albee and the Emergence of African-American TheatreChapter 8. Staging Politics of the Black Blues Bodies: Edward Albee's
The Death of Bessie Smith in Conversation with August Wilson's
Ma Rainey's Black BottomChapter 9.
Visited by a Phantom: Adrienne Kennedy's
Funnyhouse Encounter with Edward Albee
Chapter 10. The Emergence of Identity and Protest through the Rhetorical Genre of American Absurdism
Chapter 11. "I am an American Writer Too": James Baldwin as Emergent Playwright
Chapter 12. Lorraine Hansberry and Anti-Colonial Drama on the Broadway Stage
Chapter 13. Student as Citizen: Illuminating Hansberry's
A Raisin in the Sun with Albee's Plays of 1959
Chapter 14. As a Black Woman Speaks and Dances: Embracing Intersectionality in Richards'
A Black Woman Speaks (1950) and Shange's (1976)
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David A. Crespy is a Professor of Playwriting, Acting, Theatre History, and Dramatic Literature at the University of Missouri, USA.
Les Gray is a dramaturg, collaborator, writer, and occasional performer. Their work has been featured in 'Youth Theatre Journal' and 'The Professor Is In'.
