AFTER THE EMPEROR: INTERRACIAL COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN PROVINCETOWN ALUMNI AND BLACK THEATRE ARTISTS C.1924-1946

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

The Provincetown Players' production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, starring Charles Gilpin, was a cause célèbre at the time (1920) and has since become a landmark in American theatre history. Although O'Neill had been writing plays with black characters since 1916, and in 1919 the Players had presented an all-black cast in The Dreamy Kid, these productions had attracted minimal attention.1 The controversies surrounding The Emperor Jones, however, focused attention on race in a way that the others had not. On the one hand, Charles Gilpin's undisputed artistic triumph in the title ...

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