The Colored Museum
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The Colored Museum is a play by the African American dramatist George C. Wolfe. It had its premiere in 1986 at Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ and won its author the Dramatists Guild Award in the same year.
The play features eleven vignettes that satirize elements of African American culture:
- Git on Board
- Cookin' with Aunt Ethel
- The Photo Session
- Soldier with a Secret
- The Gospel According to Miss Roj
- The Hairpiece : as a woman is getting ready to meet her boyfriend and call off the relationship, her wigs argue over which wig best suits her purpose
- The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play : a parody of themes, motifs and characters from the African American theatre tradition, with references to plays by Richard Wright, Ntozake Shange, et al.
- Symbiosis
- Lala's Opening
- Permutations
- The Party
[edit] External links
- The Colored Museum at the Internet Broadway Database
- [1] Excerpt of Miss Roj monologue from 'The Colored Museum'
- [2] - A brief summary of the work
