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About the Book

Within the relatively recent development of a tradition of African American playwriting, the Theodore Ward Prize has, over its twenty-year history, offered a rich reflection of the accomplishments of emerging and established black playwrights and their growing importance in shaping contemporary theater. This volume showcases three winners of the Theodore Ward Prize--plays that in their quality and subject matter aptly represent what is being written and produced by African American playwrights and theaters today.

Carefully selected by a director and educator who has been affiliated with the contest for eighteen of its twenty years, these three works have themes that range from the sordid shenanigans of a Depression-era South Side Burial Society (Leslie Lee's Sundown Names and Night-Gone Things) to a single mother's heartbreaking battle to save her children's souls (Mark Clayton Southers' Ma Noah) to a poignant and achingly funny reunion of three sisters after their parents' death (Kim Euell's The Diva Daughters DuPree). Their publication answers a growing demand for the work of African American playwrights even as it affords deep and varied insights into African American culture in our era.

About the Author: Chuck Smith is a resident director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where his productions have included The Story, Proof, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Gift Horse, The Amen Corner, A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, A Christmas Carol, and The Meeting. Smith is also a faculty member in the Theater Department of Columbia College, Chicago. He is the editor of Seven Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting (Northwestern, 2004).


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  • ISBN-13: 9780810123908
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 530 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0810123908
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
  • Width: 163 mm


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