Word: kingtish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel Horovitz's Morning opens the evening of one-act plays with promises of (perhaps) a new day, a new world. In the midst of Harlem, a black family-a little like good old Kingtish and Sapphire, only a hellever lot tougher-have just popped a few pills that turn them white. Overnight. But as should be expected, devolving into a white man isn't that simple a proposition. In effect the play becomes a roller coaster excursion through a series of assumed racial identities (along with their accompanying crises) until. finally. Horovitz's white blacks decide to stick with...
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