The Colored Museum

Directed by Ethel Walker
Fall 2009
University Theatre

George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum is a bitingly ironic and comedic satire on the modern African American experience. The play makes reference to earlier African American literature, saluting and moving beyond such important works as Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Ntozake Shange's For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. In making satirical references to these and other works, The Colored Museum stakes out its own place in African American literature: indebted to earlier work, but making a deliberate break from it.

below, photos from dress rehearsal

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