A 1961 production of this play at the St. Mark’s Playhouse that ran for 1,408 performances featured the talents of Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give the English name of this 20th-century French play that opens with a troupe of actors dancing around a corpse. In this play, masked characters on raised platforms, like The Queen, comment on the main action before being executed.
ANSWER: The Blacks: A Clown Show
[10e] This document for the St. Mark’s production of Genet’s The Blacks shows the company in African masks. These documents often handed out at theater doors name a yellow-bannered magazine covering Broadway shows.
ANSWER: playbills [or programs or programmes or showbills; accept Playbill magazine]
[10h] This actress played The Queen in the St. Mark’s production of The Blacks. This woman directed a 1988 revival of Errol John’s Moon on a Rainbow Shawl and was nominated for a Tony for her performance in Jerome Kilty’s Look Away.
ANSWER: Maya Angelou [or Marguerite Annie Johnson; prompt on Johnson]
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