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Negro Ensemble Company, The

• 1987 ----- color ----- 55 min ----- vhs
• Founded in 1967 by actor/playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald Krone, The Negro Ensemble Company holds as its stated goal of creating "a Theater of Excellence concentrating primarily on themes of Black life." Celebrates the company's first 20 years, "rich in struggle and accomplishment." Places the plight of the Black actor in context while examining the history of the time as it relates to the plays produced. Includes scenes from: Day of Absence (Douglas Turner Ward), Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (Peter Weiss), Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (Lonne Elder III), The River Niger (Joseph Walker), Home (Samm-Art Williams), Zooman and the Sign and A Soldier's Play/Story (Charles Fuller). Narrated by Ossie Davis.
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, Drama)

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