Acting up and getting down : plays by African American Texans / edited and with introductions by Sandra Mayo and Elvin Holt. - First edition. - 1 online resource (365 pages). - Southwestern Writers Collection series . - Southwestern Writers Collection series. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: definition of black theatre -- Camp Logan / Celeste Bedford Walker -- Johnny B. Goode / Thomas Meloncon -- Killingsworth / Eugene Lee -- Driving wheel / Sterling Houston -- Br'er rabbit / adapted by George Hawkins -- When the ancestors call / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Ancestors / Ted Shine.

9780292727656 (e-book)


American drama--African American authors.
American drama--Texas.
American drama--20th century.
American drama--21st century.
African Americans--Drama.


Electronic books.

PS628.N4 / A28 2014

812/.54080896073