Affirmative (Re)Action
Affirmative (Re)Action
El Centro Productions
The Blacks by Jean Genet - Affirmative (Re)Action Episode 6
45 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2021 at 4:05 pm.
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Using the framework of a play within a play, it exposes racial prejudice and stereotypes while exploring black identity. As a troupe of black actors re-enact the trial and ensuing murder of a white woman before a kangaroo court, the Queen and her entourage look on and comment. Five of the 13 black actors don Whiteface to play establishment figures. The Queen (a whited-up woman) comes to a Command Performance, but the proceedings are far removed from any Royal Variety Show.

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