Song of the Lusitanian bogey : a play with music in two acts, [1970?] / by Peter Weiss ; translation by Lee Baxandall.

Ward, Douglas Turner, 1930-2021

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Negro Ensemble Company co-founder, actor, director, and playwright Douglas Turner Ward was born Roosevelt Ward, Jr. on May 5, 1930, in Burnside, Louisiana. Ward was a descendant of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the Ku Klux Klan; his great, great, great-grandmother, Elnora, owned as a slave by Forrest, bore a child with him. Ward's parents, Roosevelt Ward and Dorothy Short Ward were field hands, but they owned their own tailoring business. Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attend...

Weiss, Peter, 1916-1982

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Krone, Gerald S.

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Negro Ensemble Company

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The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) was a black repertory company that presented works on social themes that were germane to black life and expanded opportunities for experienced black theatre artists. NEC was founded in 1967 by actor/playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor Robert Hooks and theatre administrator Gerald Krone, with a $434,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The company offered professional training to potential new talent and for a brief time had a training company for bo...

Baxandall, Lee

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Lee Baxandall donated to the Tamiment Library, circa 1975, over one thousand books and serials, and personal papers pertaining to topics covered in his bibliography, Marxism and aesthetics (Humanities Press, 1968), with special emphasis on the life and work of Bertolt Brecht. The published items have been integrated into the library's book and serial holdings, while the personal papers are described below. From the description of Marxism and aesthetics collection, [ca. 1925-1975]. 19...

Hooks, Robert, 1937-

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Distinguished actor Robert Hooks was born Bobby Dean Hooks on April 18, 1937, in Washington, D.C. He was the youngest of five children. Hooks' father died while working on a railroad track. His mother supported the family by working as a seamstress. Hooks attended Stevens Elementary School. He performed in his first play,The Pirates of Penzance, at the age of nine. After graduating from Francis Junior High School, Hooks attended Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C. His mother remarried and ...