Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff

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Title	Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff
Year for Search	1972
Authors	Hansberry, Lorraine [Vivian](1930-65)
Pagination	120 pp.
Date Published	1972
Publisher	Samuel French
Place Published	New York
Keywords	African American author, Female author
Annotation	The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (1958).
Additional Publishers	Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. “Les Blancs is 47-172, with “A Critical Background” (35-46) and “Postscript” by Neimroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his “Introduction” (3-32).
Info Notes	First performed November 15, 1970, at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. A revised version of the play was created for the National Theatre by director Yaël Farber, dramaturg Drew Lichtenburg, and Jo Gresham, director and trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust and premiered March 22, 2016.
Holding Institutions	PSt
Author Note	African American female author (1930-65)
Full Text	1972 Hansberry, Lorraine [Vivian] (1930-65). Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff. Script Associate Charlotte Zaltsburg. New York: Samuel French. 122 pp. First performed November 15, 1970, at the Longacre Theatre in New York City. Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. “Les Blancs is 47-172, with “A Critical Background” (35-46) and “Postscript” by Nemiroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his “Introduction” (3-32). A revised version of the play was created for the National Theatre by director Yaël Farber, dramaturg Drew Lichtenburg, and Jo Gresham, director and trustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust and premiered March 22, 2016. PSt The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (1958). African American female author.