For the first time in nearly a century, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new play: The Ghost of Slavery by Anna Deavere Smith will debut across 32 pages of the publication’s December issue.
The play, the centerpiece of a Reconstruction-themed issue, was posted on the Atlantic’s website today.
The Ghost of Slavery is set in Baltimore and Annapolis in the 1860s and the present, and, according to a description provided by the magazine, explores the power of historical trauma to persist for generations. The magazine describes the play as “a searing drama of great emotional and historical complexity set in two time periods, the effect of which is not just to bring history vividly (and at times painfully) to life, or to make plain the injustices meted out to Black Americans across centuries, but to make readers and audiences see anew the connections between past and present.”
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The play, the centerpiece of a Reconstruction-themed issue, was posted on the Atlantic’s website today.
The Ghost of Slavery is set in Baltimore and Annapolis in the 1860s and the present, and, according to a description provided by the magazine, explores the power of historical trauma to persist for generations. The magazine describes the play as “a searing drama of great emotional and historical complexity set in two time periods, the effect of which is not just to bring history vividly (and at times painfully) to life, or to make plain the injustices meted out to Black Americans across centuries, but to make readers and audiences see anew the connections between past and present.”
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- 11/13/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Since the release of “The Beguiled” earlier this summer, Sofia Coppola’s film has faced criticism that it fails to include the African American character featured in Don Siegel’s 1971 version. As the new film continues to open around the country, Coppola provided this exclusive statement to IndieWire in response to the backlash.
There have been some questions regarding my approach to my new film, “The Beguiled.” More specifically, there have been objections to my decision not to include the slave character, Mattie, in Thomas Cullinan’s book on which my film is based. I would like to clarify this.
My film is set in a Southern school for girls at the point in the Civil War when the men had been away fighting for some time and the Union had gained momentum. According to historians and several women’s journals from the time, many slaves had departed, and a...
There have been some questions regarding my approach to my new film, “The Beguiled.” More specifically, there have been objections to my decision not to include the slave character, Mattie, in Thomas Cullinan’s book on which my film is based. I would like to clarify this.
My film is set in a Southern school for girls at the point in the Civil War when the men had been away fighting for some time and the Union had gained momentum. According to historians and several women’s journals from the time, many slaves had departed, and a...
- 7/15/2017
- by Sofia Coppola
- Indiewire
Death is inevitable, especially in war, but when 900 men died in 12 hours at the Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va., on July 21, 1861, a divided country was unprepared for the sheer number of corpses. What was expected to be a military escapade of short duration dragged on for four years.
By the time the Civil War ended, an estimated 750,000 men -- making up almost 2.5 percent of the entire U.S. population -- had been killed. The task of retrieving, identifying and burying the dead -- let alone notifying families waiting for word of husbands, sons, fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews and cousins -- proved beyond the capability, even the very imagination, of a sundered nation.
On Tuesday, Sept. 18 (check local listings), PBS' "American Experience" and documentarian Ric Burns look at "Death and the Civil War," which examines how the carnage forever changed the nation's view of its obligation to the bodies and families of war casualties.
By the time the Civil War ended, an estimated 750,000 men -- making up almost 2.5 percent of the entire U.S. population -- had been killed. The task of retrieving, identifying and burying the dead -- let alone notifying families waiting for word of husbands, sons, fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews and cousins -- proved beyond the capability, even the very imagination, of a sundered nation.
On Tuesday, Sept. 18 (check local listings), PBS' "American Experience" and documentarian Ric Burns look at "Death and the Civil War," which examines how the carnage forever changed the nation's view of its obligation to the bodies and families of war casualties.
- 9/18/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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