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The Emperor Jones (1920), by American playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), in which a new style is tried; expressionism takes the place of realism in a drama which is, in effect, one long dramatic soliloquy revealing the terror that enters a Negro's soul as, driven into the jungle, he flies in terror from the beating of the drums.
Published in Nine plays, selected by the author. Random House, 1932.
Performed by the Witwatersrand University Players in 1928.
Union Artists staged the play, directed by Leon Gluckman and starring Joe Mogotsi in 1960. It had an all-black supporting cast of thirty actors and was staged at the Wits Great Hall. Later they staged it in a tent in the Showgrounds in Pretoria after much hostile negotiation.
Sources
Footlights, 1(4):10, 1929.
World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949, p 884.
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