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Big White Fog

Theodore Ward
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  • ISBN 9781854595959
  • Weight: 132g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 10 May 2007
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

A poignant family drama set in Chicago against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times.

Chicago's South Side in the 1920s. Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family together, Victor Mason is an educated black man reduced to working on building sites. His loyalty to Marcus Garvey's Back to Africa movement clashes with his family's pursuit of the American Dream despite the twin evils of the Depression and of ubiquitous racism.

Never seen outside America until 2007, Theodore Ward's landmark family drama, Big White Fog, remains as poignant today as it was when it burst upon the Chicago stage in 1937 - and on to New York, where it was produced by the Negro Playwrights' Company, of which Ward was a co-founder with, among others, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.

This volume also contains extensive introductory material by writers, thinkers and activists such as Marcus Garvey, Richard Wright and James Baldwin.
About Theodore Ward
Theodore Ward, born 1902 in Louisiana, one of 11 children, joined the Chicago branch of the Federal Theatre, where he wrote Big White Fog, staged in New York by the Negro Playwrights Company, which he co-founded with Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson. He wrote 30 more plays - including Our Land, which ran on Broadway - before his death in Chicago in 1883. He was the the first black dramatist to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

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