I Ain't Yo' Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Robert Alexander. From the stage adaptation by George Aiken. Of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Product Code: I54000
Full-length Play
Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
Cast size: 5m., 4w. (Multiracial cast. One or two extras optional.)
Awards: Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
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Synopsis
This play takes Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel and spins it on its ear. Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and Eliza put Harriet Beecher Stowe on trial for not only perpetuating negative stereotypes but also for failing to "get their story right." In this play these same stereotypes reinvent themselves, while the story gets updated from their own Afrocentric perspective in such a way that it not only retains the story's original power, but also draws sharp parallels on matters of race between yesterday and today. If Uncle Tom's Cabin was the novel that helped start the Civil War, I Ain't Yo' Uncle reminds us that the war for equality in America still continues.
Details
- Status In stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code I54000
- Minimum Cast Size 9
- Pages of Dialogue 62
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 120 min
- Staging Unit set.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre | Touring Group
- Genre Comedy | Drama | Melodrama | Tragedy
- ISBN(13) 9780871296474