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Directing Thesis
The Woman/The Man
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead by Suzan Lori-Parks and Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy
Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 2:00PM

Lenfest Center for the Arts
Flexible Performance Space
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

Directed by Jeffrey Page

The Woman / The Man is a theatrical double feature comprised of two Obie-winning plays: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Sarah, a young woman living in New York, struggles with her racial identity in Funnyhouse of a Negro. A child born at the intersection of Black and White, Sarah encounters images of her heritage through manifestations of historical figures from Jesus Christ to Queen Victoria to Patrice Lumumba in Kennedy’s dreamlike portrait of what it means to be a Woman of Color in America. In The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Black Man is trapped in a perpetual state of execution. Set in “the great hole” in American History, the legacies and lives of forgotten and omitted African American men and women remain unheard and unseen. Echoes of Black American culture and stereotypes are personified in Parks’ surreal narrative of the historical repetition of racial inequality. Written nearly 30 years apart, the two pieces in The Woman / The Man remain as haunting and as relevant as the day each was written.