25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival : A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater /: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kelley Nicole Girod.
• Editors: Girod, Kelley Nicole
• Contents: About the Festival and List of all playwrights from the past 11 Season- Foreword 'The Privilege of Identity and Why I Founded The Fire This Time FestivalPlay Sections1.Section 1: Vanna White, Brook Shields, and Beyonce: Beauty Standards and Self Acceptance in Black America Featuring Katori Hall's Beyonce Effect, Derek Lee McPhatter's Citizen Jane, Antoinette Nwandu's Vanna White Has Got To Die, and Roger Q. Mason's Hard Palate2. Section 2: The Cost of Education: Confronting the Effects of Racial Disparity in America's Education System Featuring Dominique Morisseau's Third Grade; Fransica Da Silviera's scholarship babies; and Tracey Conyer Lee's Poor Posturing3. Section 3: The Shots Heard Round The World: Policing Black Bodies in White America Featuring C.A. Johnson's The Fucking World and Everything in It; William Watkins' BLACK WHITE & BLUE; Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo; and Natyna Bean's Assumed Positions4. Section 4: Birth: Contemplating the next generation in a complicated system Featuring Dennis A. Allen II's Untainted Wombs, and Deneen Reynolds-Knott's Antepartum5. Section 5: Maintaining Roots: Addressing Gentrification in Historically Black Neighborhoods Featuring Bernard Tarver's Just Another Saturday in the Park and Cyrus Aaron's Panopticon6. Section 6: The Black Family: How We Thrive in the Face of Oppression Featuring Camille Darby's Exodus; Marcus Gardley's The Sporting Life of Icarus Jones; Charly Evon Simpson's The House; Kendra Augustin's Sisterhood in the Time of the Apocalypse; and Samantha Godfrey's C.O.G.s. 7. Section 7: Black Love: Why We Hope Featuring Jonathan Payne's The Weatherin'; Tyler English-Beckwith's Maya and Rivers; Fredrica Bailey's Love and Happiness; Angelica Cheri's Slow Gin Fits; and Josh Wilder's Gravity, The Fire This Time Creative Team.
• Publisher Details: London : Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (200 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Performing Arts -- Theater -- Playwriting; Plays, playscripts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350268135; 1350268135
• Related ISBNs: 9781350268104
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