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Review: Common Ground's 'Day of Absence' a landmark play that still resonates


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It’s mere coincidence that Common Ground Theatre’s long-planned production of “Day of Absence” opened for streaming on Friday, just six days after the death of its venerated 90-year-old playwright Douglas Turner Ward.
But the passing of Ward who cofounded and for many years ran the Negro Ensemble Company in New York reminds the viewer of how innovative a writer he was, and how this boundary-breaking 1965 play is still, unfortunately, relevant today. The filmed play, directed by Common Ground artistic director Yolanda Franklin, was presented for just three Zoom-based performances last weekend.
“Day of Absence” is a satire described as a reverse minstrel show. Black actors wearing whiteface makeup portray the White citizens of a small Southern town in the mid-1950s, where all of the city’s Black residents mysteriously disappear for one day. The White residents become increasingly desperate, despondent and angry as they realize how dependent they a ....

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Benefit claimant pinches paperboy's bike from outside North Staffordshire shop


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Thief Leon Matthews stole a paperboy’s bicycle from outside a newsagent.
The 14-year-old victim had left his bike outside the Newcastle shop while he collected the papers for his morning round. ....

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