Robert w butcher (7 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers over stapled binding. 64pp. Owner name, pen mark on "Acknowledgments" page, covers moderately rubbed, spine with a small tear at foot, still about very good. Contributions by Howard Nemerov, W.D. Snodgrass, Philip Levine, X.J. Kennedy, Lewis Turco, Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Grace Butcher, Hayden Carruth,William Sylvester, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.H. Auden and many others.…

Hardcover. pp. 156. 4to. Bound in full black leatherette with gilt lettering and emblem of Queen's University embossed to front board. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations, advertisments. Very light general shelfwear to extremities. Ink name to front free endpaper otherwise, contents remain remarkebly bright and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Overall, very good+. Scarce.…

Vintage program for the 1947 production of the 1944 play, held from December 9-12, 1947, at Howard University's Spaulding Hall, under the direction of James W. Butcher, Jr. The production marked the first time the play had been performed by an all-Black cast. Produced less than two years after the 1945 Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' breakthrough play, director Butcher remained faithful to Williams' text for Howard University's Black acting troupe, The Howard Players, and the performances' predominately Black audience, and was widely lauded by local critics, with the Washington Afro-American declaring the production "a must on the local theatregoers' calendar," and the Washington Evening Star acknowledging Butcher's "bravery" in producing an entirely Black production of Williams' play. Among The Howard Players acting in the production were very early performances by noted actor Graham Brown (later of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York), here using his birth name Robert Brown, who played the angry and socially conscious Tom Wingfield, and noted actor, playwright, and groundbreaking theatre director Shauneille Perry, who played the crippled and psychologically fragile Laura Wingfield. 6.5 x 9.25 inches, Bi-fold. Near Fine, with faint toning to the extremities.…