Brian Martin's sleek all-purpose set, of an antiseptic modern museum displaying exhibits of ''colored'' history, is a civilized repository of black America's ancestral baggage. It was also a milestone event for students in the Oakwood Theatre program as every element�costume design, set design, sound design, stage management, � One of these items ships sooner than the other. THE STORY: THE COLORED MUSEUM has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. I originally wasn�t too hot on this play, until I saw a video of it being preformed! Provocative, exciting, hilarious.had me thinking how I'd stage it as I read it because it grabbed my imagination and had it running away the whole time I was reading. The isolationist tactics that Wolfe uses throughout, especially the throttling satire, wrench readers out of their comfort zone and into the issues present in each exhibit.
It is a Jewel that brings people together from all parts of the region & beyond AND all backgrounds.with the common love of Jazz.
This script is sadly as relevant today as it was when it was first performed.
