Description | Programme for 'Blues for an Alabama Sky' in the Lyttelton Theatre. Contains introductory essay ' Bringing Back Summer' Sarah Corke finds out about the National Theatre's summer plans. Programme contains essays 'Creativity, Activism and Bathtub Gin: Melissa Barton Gives an Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance'; 'Navigating Harlem: A Guide to the Real-Life People in Blues for an Alabama Sky'; a series of poems sung in the performance by Langston Hughes - 'Dreams', 'Dream Variations', 'Harlem (A Dream Deferred)' - and a poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson, 'My Little Dreams'; 'Choice is the Essence of Freedom: SaraEllen Strongman Looks at Black Women's Historic Involvement in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights in the United States'. Contains cast and creative details, rehearsal photographs by Marc Brenner. |