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Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.
For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice.
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reviewed The Amen Corner on April 17, 2017 The Amen Corner
"No one yet knows, or is in the least prepared to speculate on, how high a bill we will yet have to pay for what we have done to Negro men and women. She is in the church because her society has left her no other place to go. Her sense of reality is dictated by the society's assumptions, which also becomes her own, of her inferiority"
This play is heart breaking and the introduction by Baldwin really makes it clear just how little freedom is enjoyed by the african american population at large. Margaret Alexander has no choice but to subscribe to the notion that she must be the archetypal, strong, black woman. This will stay with me for a long time, as much of Baldwin's works tend to do. He is uncompromising in his critic of american society and i applaud him for it!
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