The Great White Hope
by Howard Sackler

Name: The Great White Hope
Brand: Howard Sackler
SKU: 9780573609602
Rating: 3.42 (64 reviews)

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Highlights

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Large Cast

Female

Male

120 mins 1910s/WWI Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Period Costumes American

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! Three 1969 Tony Awards, including Best Play Winner! Two 1969 Drama Desk Awards

Synopsis

Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doublingWinner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!"A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten.

Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B

Press Reviews

"A great part – a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration... [it] has an epic scope and range."
— The New York Times