1990: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Adapted for the stage by George Aiken
An African-American Adaptation by Robert Alexander
Directed by Dan Chumley

UNCLE TOM featured Andrea Snow, Kathleen McCormick, Richard Harder, Edris Cooper, Sophia Chumley, Jim Griffiths, Lonnie Ford, Kurt Meeker, Jeffery Thompson
& Danny White


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Harriet Beecher Stowe's dramatic but controversial anti-slavery novel is seen from an African-American perspective in playwright Robert Alexander's radical new adaptation as presented by the celebrated Lorriane Hansberry Theatre and the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe in association with Festival 2000. Liza, Little Eva, George, Topsy, Simon Legree and Tom are all here - but with a difference! Opening with a prologue that brings Stowe face-to-face with her characters -- this "Uncle Tom's Cabin" examines the problem of race in America at its roots - allowing no easy answers.
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