Monthly Archives: September 2020

TROUBLE IN MIND — Alice Childress

Posted on September 19, 2020 by dgsweet

I continue to read plays from the past I’ve never gotten to see. Mostly, as I’ve said before, I’m alternating between an anthology of plays that won the Pulitzer Prize early on and an anthology of post-war plays by Black … Continue reading →

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Another obscure Pulitzer Prize-winning play

Posted on September 3, 2020 by dgsweet

Continuing my lackadaisical progress through Pulitzer Prize-winners of the past, hit Hell-bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes. As the “fer” in the title suggests, this is a play written in dialect about hill people in the South (reportedly based on … Continue reading →

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