A Photograph (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ntozake Shange
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Verse drama, Women’s literature
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, California, West, U.S., Substance abuse, Women’s issues, Self-confidence, Creative process, Drug addiction or addicts, Dancing or dancers, Photography or photographers, Pictures, San Francisco
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, first produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1977, is a more conventionally structured play than for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf. The characters exist as individually developed entities rather than as the storytellers of the earlier play: They interact through dialogue and action and advance a plot. Two of the characters, Sean and Michael, are struggling artists; he is a photographer, she is a dancer. Earl and Nevada are both attorneys; Earl is also a longtime friend of Sean. The fifth...
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