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All God's Chillun Got Wings
Author(s):
Eugene O'neill
In All God's Chillun Got Wings, a negro marries a white girl and is unhappy. This theme is illustrated with seven scenes depicting as many stages in the progress of the miscegenetic romance. “All God’s Chillun” is exposition rather than drama most of the time. It is a sharp and pertinent analysis of the question of intermarriage between whites and blacks.
Negro and white children play on the streets in the first scene, and there is no race prejudice to be discovered in their attitudes toward each other. Two of them are seen growing up in the following scenes, a colored boy and a white girl, and prejudice grows along with a sharp consciousness of it. The girl is cast aside and, being alone in the world, is grateful to the negro for his adoration and marries him in order to have some one to love her sincerely. But she is white and he black, and neither they nor those they live among can forget it. Furthermore, she cannot blind herself to the fact that, save for her color, which gives her a sense of superiority, she is inferior to him. She loses her sanity and brings the play to a close by shrieking at him the word “Nigger” despite the fact that she loves him.
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | Not Available | | Male Characters: | Not Available | | Female Characters: | Not Available | | Androgynous Characters: | Not Available | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $50 per performance
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Please check with the publisher for the most accurate information. | | Publisher: | Dramatists Play Service
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