Rachel: A Play in Three Acts (AmazonClassics Edition)

De: Angelina Weld Grimké

Narrado por: Leon Nixon, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Sean Crisden, Karen Chilton, Cary Hite, Adenrele Ojo, Shayna Small, Cortney Wright, Ron Butler

When the curtains rise on Angelina Weld Grimké’s devastating drama, the Lovings—a Black family from the South—have settled into a small but immaculate apartment in an unnamed northern city. The widowed matriarch, Mary; her daughter, Rachel; and her son, Tom anticipate a more promising future here, but Rachel, a sensitive young woman, has a sudden reckoning with the past that throws her future into serious doubt. While she has a powerful desire to be a mother someday, she also now wonders: How can she bear to bring more Black lives into the world, knowing the inevitable pain that awaits them?

The first play with an all-Black cast to be performed before an integrated audience in the US, Rachel is an astonishing rediscovery that delves into the complexities of race, parenthood, and the devastating impact of racism through the generations.

Revised edition: Previously published as Rachel: A Play in Three Acts, this edition of Rachel: A Play in Three Acts (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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“Leading a cast of well-established, award-winning African American voice talents, Tamika Katon-Donegal gives a voice full of bright sensitivity, intelligence, and hope to Rachel, a young early-twentieth-century Black woman who is coming of age and looking to the future.… Written by author, teacher, activist Angelina Weld Grimké, the play was first performed in 1916 and is presented here as a staged reading with directions and notes delivered by the narrator (Leon Nixon).… A wonderful rediscovered gem of African American theater.”—AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner