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The Sty of the Blind Pig: Directed by Ivan Dixon. With Mary Alice, Scatman Crothers, Maidie Norman, Richard Ward. Originally produced in 1971 by the estimable Negro Ensemble Company, and hailed by Time Magazine as one of the best plays of the year, Dean's powerful drama is about an uprooted Africian American family (mother, daughter, uncle ...
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- Drama
- Ivan Dixon
- 1974-05-29
May 31, 1974 · Set in Chicago in the early nineteen‐sixties, the story focuses on the push‐pull relationship between an elderly, domineering mother and her aging, repressed and lonely daughter.
Review by Jack Often ★★★★. Ivan Dixon, director of The Spook Who Sat By the Door, helmed this play filmed for television about a repressed family struggling to cope with their past and the future just before the dawn of the civil rights movement.
- Ivan Dixon
- KCET
Philip Hayes Dean’s powerful drama about an uprooted Black family living in Chicago while civil rights leaders organize marches in the South.
Ivan Dixon, director of The Spook Who Sat By the Door, helmed this play filmed for television about a repressed family struggling to cope with their past and the future just before the dawn of the civil rights movement. The play's author Phillip Hayes Dean famously suffered his own moment of being left behind as his later play about Paul Robeson was widely condemned, ending his career. A ...
Feb 10, 2022 · Dixon artfully brings the claustrophobic teleplay to a forceful boil, with Mary Alice delivering a harrowing performance of depth rarely seen in prime-time television. In 1971, Time magazine hailed the off-Broadway production of The Sty of the Blind Pig as “one of the ten best plays of the year.”
Critics reviews. After moving to Chicago from the South just as the civil rights movement takes hold, the members of an African American family led by steely matriarch Weedy Warren have different reactions to the social upheaval surrounding them.
