2.1.10: "Yellow Moon Rising", 1992-1998, and undated
Scope and Contents
The sub-series contains playscripts, research documents with journal essays newspaper, newsletter articles and reviews, correspondence, contact sheets, certificate of registration for a musical play, abstract of play and workshop program, ground staging plan, handwritten notes, rehearsal schedule, call sheet, playbill, congratulations card, and reproduction of a Uncle Tom's Cabin broadside.
Dates
- Creation: 1992-1998, and undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Brown, Carlyle (Person)
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 19.18 linear feet (46 legal size boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Brown's "work-in-progress" of Yellow Moon Rising was during his tenure at Ohio State University's (James) Thurber House as their playwright-in-residence, and serving as a guest instructor in the theatre department during their Winter Quarter (1996).
Yellow Moon Rising is a play set in nineteenth-century America about Blacks struggling with the dilemma of slavery versus escape, during the 1850 Compromise. Brown based his story on incidents chronicled in Life of a Slave Girl, (1861), the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs; and John Rankin's Letters on American Slavery (1838).
Told in a series of vignettes, that of an African-Amercian enslaved woman torn between the love of her child and the desire for freedom, as well as that of two brothers; one a slave master and the other, an abolitionist.
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
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