The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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Actor: Bebe Drake, Charles Brown, Ethel Ayler, Frances Foster, Moses GunnBrand: Kultur
Writer: Leslie Lee
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
DVD Reviews of The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive)
DVD Review: Gospel music, inspiration, and the past!
Summary: 5 Stars
First Breeze of Summer is quite the emotional play with powerful performances. We are very luck to have a series of plays from The Broadway Theatre Archive, plays from the 1960-80s. This wonderful production is by the Negro Ensemble Company in approximately 1975. It is semiautobiographical work of playwright Leslie Lee, who wrote numerous plays, some unpublished.
The play is filled with great dialogue, timing, action, music, flashbacks, and most of all, there are some brilliant acting performances.
The setting is the mid 70s, an African-American family, the matriarch Lucretia, known as Gremmar is visiting her son Milton (Moses Gunn), his wife Hattie, and their two sons, Nate and Lou. Nate, an inspiring teen, rebels to work in the family business and wants to be a doctor or scientist. He dreams of escaping the "negro" shell, the shame that comes with it; he is a bookworm. He has strong faith in God, and believes his faith will get him out of the negro lifestyle and image it projects. One person who has not shattered his faith is his grandmother, Lucretia, who he idolizes and then, he discovers the truth.
With flashbacks, we learn the life of Lucretia (Gremmar), the three men she was involved with, never married to them, but gave birth to their children. But through circumstances, you learn how men walked out on her.
Young Nate (Charles Brown) give a brilliant performance with his naivete toward life, but especially the rousing rendition of "testifying" to the Lord. Another wonderful, memorable performance is by Lucretia/Gremmar's love interest, the soon-to-be preacher Harper (Douglas Turner Ward).
The spirituals play a role in their lives and you can hear "Blessed Assurance" "Eye On the Sparrow"; "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms".... This is a splendid production! For another wonderful Theatre Archive production, try Arkady Leokum's Enemies (Broadway Theatre Archive) and Neighbors (Broadway Theatre Archive)....Rizzo
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