Apocalyptic vaudeville

There’s a long tradition of Black American playwrights and filmmakers subverting the tropes of vaudeville and other popular entertainments to critique white supremacy and its violent power structures—power structures that of course also include American theater and filmmaking.  Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 satire Day of Absence (which led to the creation of the Negro Ensemble […]
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