Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence
Nico on Feb 12 2009 at 12:01 am | Filed under: General Theatre, Miscellany
I got the idea for our Day of Absence from Douglas Turner Ward’s play.
Lo and behold, on YouTube I found a clip of a staged reading of that play. The above is from close to the end.
Note how the actors are playing the white characters in whiteface — a reversal of the traditional blackface that was used by white actors in vaudeville and other early twentieth-century genres.
