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Title: Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage ISBN: 0822216345 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Another view of blacks after the migration
Comment: Many plays and novels have dealt with blacks during the 30's with a theme that concentrates on the effect of the migration on black life. This is one of the underlying thems in BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY. Three of the characters have migrated from the South. Although in many respects they have adjusted, there is still a bit of them left in the South - they still carry some of the southern experience with them.
In dealing with the migration, all of the characters make the point that in life "you have to do what you have to do." When faced with adversity, people will do anything to survive and in many respects all of the characters are survivors. They survive until Leland, the recently migrated Alabaman interests their lives.
This is a play about dreams and hopes. Each of the characters has one and each wants to fulfill those dreams in a certain way. To say more would be to spoil a performance. Although it starts out on a light note, the second half becomes deadly serious and deals with issues rarely dealt with in African American plays. As I have seen before, I felt that the depection of blacks in Harlem was a little lavish. Blacks in Harlen in the 30's lived stark - people lived close together - they didn't have much money. Perhaps the characters lived a little to well.
Although I thought the play was a bit long in places, which could have been the local direction, the play delivers a powerful message.
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Title: The Brass Bed and Other Stories by Pearl Cleage ISBN: 0883781271 Publisher: Third World Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: I Wish I Had a Red Dress by Pearl Cleage ISBN: 0380804883 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell ISBN: 0399147845 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage ISBN: 038079487X Publisher: Avon Books (Pap Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ISBN: 0060959479 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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