The Colored Museum (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George C. Wolfe
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Fictional exhibits in a museum
- Principal Characters: Miss Pat, Aunt Ethel, Girl, Guy, Junie Robinson, Miss Roj, Janine, LaWanda, Mama, Medea, Walter-Lee-Beau-Willie-Jones, The Lady in Plaid, The Man, The Kid, Lala Lamazing Grace, Normal Jean Reynolds, Topsy Washington
- Genres: Satire, Drama
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Blacks, Twentieth century, Prejudices or antipathies, 1980’s, Stereotypes
- Locales: United States
The Play
The Colored Museum is a series of eleven short scenes with no intermission. Each scene is titled and self-contained, a separate “exhibit” in a museum that illuminates what it means to be African American in the United States during the 1980’s. A few of the scenes feature two or more actors speaking to one another, but in many of them the characters speak directly to the audience. The first scene, “Git on Board,” features Miss Pat, the ever-smiling flight attendant on the Celebrity Slaveship. In language that echoes the traditional patter of the...
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