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BRIAN FREEMAN
(1955 - )Nationality: African American
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Sometimes solely a playwright, sometimes an actor-to-go, sometimes a director-for-hire, in Brian Freeman's latest works he wears all three hats. A social satirist who makes politically charged theatre, he writes deeply personal, epic narratives. In his recent play, Civil Sex, which focuses on the life of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, he makes tender, tragic, antic theatre and engages the present moment. A founding member of the performance trio, The Pomo Afro Homos (1991-94), Freeman continues to grapple with the position of gay African-American men within the fabric of modern history.
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Civil Sex Dark Fruit Fierce LoveCivil Sex
Bayard Rustin was born in 1912 and died in 1987. He conceived, and was the prime organizer behind, the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August of 1963, at which Martin Luther King delivered his unforgettable 'I Have a Dream' speech. Just a few weeks prior to the March, Rustin was denounced on the floor of the United States Senate by Strom Thurmond, for the charge of 'sex perversion' stemming from a lewd vagrancy charge ten years earlier. Despite such attacks, Rustin remained extraordinarily open about, and comfortable with, his sexual orientation throughout his adult life. the play examines the complicated life of this important figure through a series of kaleidoscopic scenes that range from 1940 through 1987 and mirror the turbulent changes which America itself endured during those years. the play's complex portrait of Rustin is created through the accumulation of many diverging perspectives on Rustin from people who knew him throughout his life-including lovers, friends and foes
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Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C Mar 1997
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in Fire This Time African American Plays, TCG, 978-1559362054
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Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters
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Top of PageDark Fruit
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A white sexologist uses black men for his own ends
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Gay full length
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Top of PageFierce Love
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Black gay life in the US
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Written By Djola Bernard Branner, Brian Freeman, Eric Gupton
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