The Blacks: A Clown Show

Theatre

Name:	St. Mark's Playhouse
Address:	133 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10009

Production Information

Number of performances:	1408
Opening date:	May 4, 1961
Closing date:	September 27, 1964

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Sidney Bernstein	Producer
	George P. Edgar	Producer
	Andre Gregory	Producer
	Geraldine Lust	Produced in Association

	Jean Genet	Playwright
	Bernard Frechtman	Translator

	Gene Frankel	Director

	Talley Beatty	Movement

	Kim E. Swados	Set Designer
	Patricia Zipprodt	Costume Designer
	Lee Watson	Lighting Designer
	Patricia Zipprodt	Mask Design

	Max Eisen	Press Representative
	Robert W. Larkin	Press Representative
	Lenny Traube	Press Representative

	Maxwell Glanville	Production Stage Manager

	Charles Gross	Music Supervisor

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Maya Angelou	Queen
	Ethel Ayler	Augustus Snow
	Cynthia Belgrave	Adelaide Bobo
	Roscoe Lee Browne	Archibald Wellington
	Godfrey M. Cambridge	Diouf
	Charles Campbell	Drummer
	Charles Gordone	Valet
	Louis Gossett	Edgar Alas Newport News
	James Earl Jones	Deodatus Village
	Helen Martin	Felicity Trollop Pardon
	Jay J. Riley	Governor
	Raymond St. Jacques	Judge
	Cicely Tyson	Stephanie Virtue Diop

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	WON	1961 Obie Award, Special Citation	Bernard Frechtman	Translator
2	WON	1961 Obie Award, Best New Play	Jean Genet	Playwright
3	WON	1961 Obie Award, Distinguished Performance	Godfrey M. Cambridge	Actor