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| Hamilton Community Theatre Presents ... Black Elk Speaks |
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This uniquely colorful and entirely authentic play
has had highly successful productions at the
Denver Center Theatre and the Mark Taper
Forum. At every performance, without exception,
it received a standing ovation. One critic
described it as "A shattering evocation of the
American Plains Indians. It tells in passionate,
mystic poetry how their West was lost!"
The New York Daily News critic wrote that it is
"...a play with a very rich texture that becomes
far more than just another cry for justice from
the Indian point of view. No one who sees this
play will ever forget it. The power of the play is
not simply that it's superbly written drama but
that it's all true. The play has color, flair,
flamboyance. It has at other times an almost
insufferable grief and fear. This is the death and
destruction of the original Americans, and it
hurts to watch. They are a people with a rich
past and absolutely no future. This play is
harnessed dynamite."
Black Elk lived the experience of the Native
American people from the moment before white
people entered his world through the end of
Indian independence at the massacre of
Wounded Knee. His unique eloquence and that
of his cousin Crazy Horse make this play a very
special event. The play moves quickly and with
mounting excitement through this history and
through a vision of life as it once was for the
Indian, and as it could be for all people.
has had highly successful productions at the
Denver Center Theatre and the Mark Taper
Forum. At every performance, without exception,
it received a standing ovation. One critic
described it as "A shattering evocation of the
American Plains Indians. It tells in passionate,
mystic poetry how their West was lost!"
The New York Daily News critic wrote that it is
"...a play with a very rich texture that becomes
far more than just another cry for justice from
the Indian point of view. No one who sees this
play will ever forget it. The power of the play is
not simply that it's superbly written drama but
that it's all true. The play has color, flair,
flamboyance. It has at other times an almost
insufferable grief and fear. This is the death and
destruction of the original Americans, and it
hurts to watch. They are a people with a rich
past and absolutely no future. This play is
harnessed dynamite."
Black Elk lived the experience of the Native
American people from the moment before white
people entered his world through the end of
Indian independence at the massacre of
Wounded Knee. His unique eloquence and that
of his cousin Crazy Horse make this play a very
special event. The play moves quickly and with
mounting excitement through this history and
through a vision of life as it once was for the
Indian, and as it could be for all people.
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