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All God's Chillun Got Wings

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All God's Chillun Got Wings
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Stage play
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All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill about miscegenation inspired by the old Negro spiritual. He began developing ideas for the play in 1922, emphasising its authenticity in his notes: "Base play on his experience as I have seen it intimately." O'Neill wrote the play in the autumn of 1923 and revised the text only slightly for its 1924 publication. Arguably one of his most controversial of plays, it starred Paul Robeson in the premiere, in which he portrayed the Black husband of an abusive White woman, who, resenting her husband's skin colour, destroys his promising career as a lawyer.

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Written: 1923/1924
Premiered: 1924

Last modified: 2024-01-05 (revision #167467)

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LibraryThing Work
10934859
Wikidata Work ID
Q4728760

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