Who owns the character — the actor or the playwright? Adrienne Earle Pender’s world premiere of N, now playing at Raleigh, NC’s Theatre in the Park, asks that very question. The play looks at the relationship between playwright Eugene O’Neill and actor Charles Sidney Gilpin in 1920, as they mount O’Neill’s first box office hit,… Continue reading Adrienne Earle Pender’s N Is Tight and Electric, Another Must-See Production at TIP
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Art, Ego, and the Weight of a Word: N Is an Important Play at a Pivotal Time
Adrienne Earle Pender’s new play N, playing Feb. 10-26 at Raleigh’s Theatre in the Park, is powerful treatise on art, ego, and how the weight of a single word can crush the human soul. N is the story of Charles Sidney Gilpin, one of the most acclaimed black actors of the 1920’s and his volatile… Continue reading Art, Ego, and the Weight of a Word: N Is an Important Play at a Pivotal Time