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Smitherman, Geneva – Black World, 1974
Both as director/playwright of New York's New Lafayette Theater and as a writer seriously committed to the forging of a black aesthetic, Ed Bullins brings to the community an artistic synthesis of the Folk-Oral and Formal-Literate Traditions. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization, Drama
Evans, Don – Black World, 1974
Discusses ed Bullins' role in bringing together in the summer of 1968 a representative collection of works from the Black Arts Movement; the controversy surrounding his 1971 Lincoln Center production of his play, "The Duplex"; and his play, "House Party," a collage of voices and images from Blacktown mounted at The American…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization, Drama
Hay, Samuel A. – Black World, 1974
Discusses the 1971 Lincoln Center production of "The Duplex", focusing on and refuting Walter Kerr's critical review of that play; Kerr is shown unable or unwilling to accept Bullins' successful use of certain structural innovations--the same ones that he raves about in non-black drama. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Characterization, Drama, Dramatics
