Knock Me A Kiss
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 21, 2010
Closed Dec 5, 2010
Opened Nov 21, 2010
Closed Dec 5, 2010
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Knock Me a Kiss is a fictional account inspired by the actual events surrounding the 1928 marriage of W.E.B. Du Bois' daughter Yolande to one of Harlem's great poets, Countee Cullen. The marriage marked the height of the Harlem Renaissance and was viewed as the perfect union of Negro talent and beauty. It united the daughter of America's foremost Black intellectual, cofounder of the NAACP and publisher of Crisis Magazine, with a young poet whose work was considered to be one of the flagships for the New Negro movement. The marriage is a triumph of pomp and pageantry but fails to be a union of man and woman.
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Charles Smith has fashioned a lively play out of a juicy, if tragic historical footnote in Knock Me a Kiss, now enjoying its New York premiere under the auspices of the New Federal Theatre at the Abrons Arts Center under Chuck Smith's skilled direction.
The work concerns what was supposed to be the wedding of the century, at least in terms of African-American advancement. In the spring of 1928, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Yolande Du Bois, the pampered only daughter of scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois, married up-and-coming poet Countee Cullen, a suitor hand-picked by her illustrious father. The wedding, attended by thousands of well-wishers, went off without a hitch -- in ev[...]