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play by Bullins
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American literature
- In American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy
…dramatized racial confrontation, while Bullins’s In the Wine Time (1968) made use of “street” lyricism. Maria Irene Fornés’s Fefu and Her Friends (1977) proved remarkable in its exploration of women’s relationships. A clear indication of Off-Broadway’s ascendancy in American drama came in 1979 when Sam Shepard, a prolific and experimental…
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- In Ed Bullins
His first full-length play, In the Wine Time (produced 1968), examines the scarcity of options available to the Black urban poor. It was the first in a series of plays—called the Twentieth-Century Cycle—that centred on a group of young friends growing up in the 1950s. Other plays in the…
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