Venus

Suzan-lori Parks(Dramatists Play Service)

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American

Medium Cast (12)Female (4)Male (8)

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Synopsis

A play

Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks.

She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.

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