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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men abstract "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is a play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969. Later in the 1968-69 season, it was given a commercial production that was a long-running success. The play was adapted for television in 1975.The play concerns the ceremonies acted out by African-American men. Mr. Russel B. Parker owns a floundering barbershop on 126th Street in Harlem. He is kept afloat by the fact that his daughter Adele works, which gives the family enough of an income to survive. His sons sons Bobby and Theo are attracted to a life of crime. Mr. William Jenkins, the other \"Dark Old Man\" of the title, finds a sanctuary in Parker's barbershop, where he trades insults and dares with Parker and plays checkers. This is part of the \"ceremonies\" of the title. The barbershop provides a place where the two dark old men can be insulated from a society in which they have failed under the norms of a capitalism and a racist culture.According to the Oxford Companion to African American Literature, the playis a dramatization of rituals—of survival, of friendship, of deception and manipulation, of self-deception, of black male friendship, of shifting intrafamilial allegiances, and of black manhood. As Elder presents the ineffectual lives of a Harlem family entrapped by rituals of economic and spiritual dependence, he urges African Americans and African American communities to become aware of and to break free of “ceremonies” that assuredly lead to personal loss and tragedy. Echoing Douglas Turner Ward's warning to black Americans whose “happiness” and survival are predicated upon white America's relationship to black America in Happy Ending (1966), Ceremonies challenges the myth that the social, political, and economic plight of black America rests in white people's hands. Through layers of ritual, Elder demonstrates the futility, corruption, and internal disruptions that result from efforts to undermine a capitalist system that seeks to determine and define African Americans’ worth and selfhood.".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men author Lonne_Elder_III.
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Adele Eloise Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Blue Haven".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Bobby Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Mr. Russell B. Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Mr. Williams Jenkins".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characterInPlay "Theopolis Parker".
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men genre Naturalism_(theatre).
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men premiereDate "1969-02-04".
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men premiereYear "1969".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men settingOfPlay "1960s; a barbershop in Harlem".
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Adele Eloise Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Blue Haven".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Bobby Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Mr. Russell B. Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Mr. Williams Jenkins".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Theopolis Parker".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men characters "Young Girl".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men genre Drama.
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men genre Naturalism_(theatre).
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men name "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men".
- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men origLang "English".
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men place "New York City".
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men writer Lonne_Elder_III.
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- Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men comment "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is a play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969. Later in the 1968-69 season, it was given a commercial production that was a long-running success. The play was adapted for television in 1975.The play concerns the ceremonies acted out by African-American men. Mr. Russel B. Parker owns a floundering barbershop on 126th Street in Harlem.".
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