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Afrocentric Theatre by Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Molette updates their ground-breaking Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation that has been essential reading in Black theatre courses for over twenty-five years. Afrocentric Theatre describes the nature of a theatre with roots in Africa that embraces and disseminates African American culture and values. The Molettes contend Black theatre is a culture-based art kind, not a race-primarily based one. They further assert culture and values shape perceptions of such ideas as time, space, heroism, reality, truth, and beauty. They say the nature of theatre is an outgrowth of a culture and its values and that culture and values kind the framework for understanding theatre and govern the way theatre, film, and video drama is perceived. They determine standards for evaluating and analyzing Afrocentric theatre and posit an acceptable perspective for interpreting and evaluating its person works.

Barbara and Carlton Molette are former Drama professors at Atlantas Spelman College where they taught such luminaries as Samuel L. Jackson, Pearl Cleage, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Bill Nunn, and Kathleen McGhee. They are respected theatre professionals who have taught at colleges and universities in the United States and in Jamaica, and Ghana, West Africa. Careers of a tiny over a half-century have provided them a context for understanding the nature of a theatre kind that, more than time has been referred to as Colored, Negro, Black, and Afrocentric. They have been involved in the evolution of this subject by means of the courses they have taught and the expert organizations they have helped to shape. They had been founders of the American Theatre Associations Black Theatre Program and the Black Theatre Network. Both are past presidents of the National Conference on African American Theatre. Both were involved in establishing some of the first graduate and undergraduate courses in African American Theatre. They collaborate as scholars, theatrical designers, and playwrights. Their plays have been made by colleges and universities and such iconic Black theatre firms as The Negro Ensemble Organization and the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York, ETA in Chicago, The Free Southern Theatre in New Orleans, Rites and Reason in Providence, Kuntu in Pittsburgh, Miamis M Ensemble, and Abibigromma (the national theatre business of Ghana).

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About the Authors
Barbara Molette was born in Los Angeles and attended public schools there. She earned a BA from Florida A & M University, an MFA from Florida State University, and a PhD from the University of Missouri. Professor emerita and former chair of the English Division at Eastern Connecticut State University, she has taught at Spelman College, Texas Southern University, and Baltimore City Community College, exactly where she was director of Writing across the curriculum. She was president of the National Conference on African American Theatre, administrative fellow for the Mid-Missouri Related Colleges and Universities, and director of arts in education applications for the Mayors Advisory Committee on Art and Culture in Baltimore.

Carlton Molette was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, attended public schools in Kansas City, Missouri, earned a BA degree from Morehouse College, an MA from the University of Iowa, and a PhD from Florida State University. Theatrical credits consist of more than one hundred productions as playwright, producer, director, designer, publicist, stage manager, actor, and technician. He is professor emeritus of dramatic arts and African American research at the University of Connecticut. He served on the faculties of Spelman College, and Atlanta, Howard, and Florida A & M universities, as director of the Atlanta University summer season theatre, chair of the division of fine arts at Spelman College, founding dean of the College of Communications at Texas Southern University, dean of arts and sciences at Lincoln (MO) University, and vice president for academic affairs at Coppin State University. He has also served as guest director at the University of Michigan seminar leader at the University of Iowas Afro-American Summer time Drama Institute consultant for universities, colleges, theatre organizations, government agencies, and companies and on the boards of arts organizations in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Houston.

AFROCENTRIC THEATRE* by Carlton W. Molette, PhD and Barbara J. Molette, PhD
Publication Date: Could 22, 2013
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