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Penumbra

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Description for Penumbra Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 black and white and 6 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.

Penumbra Theatre Company was founded in 1976 by Lou Bellamy as a venue for African American voices within the Twin Cities theatre scene and has stood for more than thirty-five years at the intersection of art, culture, politics, and local community engagement. It has helped launch the careers of many internationally respected theatre artists and has been repeatedly recognized for its artistic excellence as the nation’s foremost African American theatre.

Penumbra is the first-ever history of this barrier-breaking institution. Based on extensive interviews with actors, directors, playwrights, producers, funders, and critics, Macelle Mahala’s book offers a multifaceted view of the theatre ... Read more

Penumbra is a testament to how a theatre can respond to and thrive within changing political and cultural realities while contributing on a national scale to the African American presence on the American stage. It is a celebration of theatre as a means of social and cultural involvement—both local and national—and ultimately, of Penumbra’s continuing legacy of theatre that is vibrant, diverse, and vital.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816683789
SKU
V9780816683789
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Ref
99-15

About Macelle Mahala
Macelle Mahala is assistant professor of theatre arts at the University of the Pacific. Her fellowships include the August Wilson Fellowship in Dramaturgy and Literary Criticism at Penumbra Theatre Company and two Many Voices fellowships from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. She has worked with the Illusion Theater, Marin Theatre Company, New World Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, San Francisco Mime ... Read more

Reviews for Penumbra
"Macelle Mahala’s Penumbra deconstructs the knee-jerk assumption that African American theaters are limited rather than positively significant. The book’s rich weave places Penumbra Theatre Company at the center of a story that connects to core aspects of this country’s culture and the diverse range of mores, triumphs, and contradictions with which black people live and make theater. Analytically grounded, the ... Read more

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