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In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.
In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.
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American drama, Drama, African Americans, Racism, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, Theater programs, Specimens, HabimahPeople
James Baldwin (1924-1987)Places
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
1995, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0679761780 9780679761785
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The Actors Studio Inc., presents the Actors Studio Production of "Blues for Mister Charlie," a new play by James Baldwin, design and lighting by Feder, directed by Burgess Meredith.
ANTA Theatre, beginning April 1964.
Cast: Clyde Williams, Otis Young, Rosetta Le Noire, Dinan Sands, Lincoln Kilpatrick, David Baldwin, Pat Hingle, Ann Wedgeworth, John McCurry, Pat Randall, Patricia Quinn, Ralph Waite, Joe Don Baker, Ann Hennessey, Bill Moor, Pat Corley, Dick Bradford, Otis Young, Billie Allen, Grachan Moncur III, Bill Moor, Pearl Reynolds, Frankie (Downbeat) Brown.
Title devised by Library staff.
"Playbill. Vol. 1, May 1964, No. 5"--p. [3].
In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).
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