Production
''In Abraham's Bosom'' premiered on Broadway theatre, Broadway at the Provincetown Playhouse on December 30, 1926, and closed on June 18, 1927, after 200 performances. Directed by Jasper Deeter, the cast starred Julius Bledsoe as Abraham McCranie, L. Rufus Hill (Colonel McCranie), H. Ben Smith (Lonnie McCranie), Rose McClendon (Goldie McAllister), Abbie Mitchell (Muh Mack), and R. J. Huey (Douglas McCranie). Abraham is a mixed-race, African-American farmer from North Carolina whose efforts at self-improvement are thwarted by the state's racial segregation and Jim Crow rules. Green received the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer jury stated: "The play does not sentimentalize on the tragic situation of the negro. It is scrupulously fair to the white race. But it brings us face to face with one of the most serious of the social problems of this country, and forces us to view this problem in the light of tragic pity."Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich. "1927 Award", ''Outstanding Broadway Dramas and Comedies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Theater Productions'', LIT Verlag Münster, 2013, , pp. 24-25 The play was included in Burns Mantle's ''The Best Plays of 1926–1927''. The Provincetown Playhouse remounted the show on September 6, 1927, with Frank H. Wilson in the role of Abe McCranie. A British production of ''In Abraham's Bosom'' premiered on 7 December 1930 aPlot
The play takes place in the Southeast of the United States, from 1885 to the beginning of the 20th century. Abe McCranie is a mixed-race African-American field worker, the son of Colonel McCranie, a white man. He tries to start a school to educate black children, as they were underserved by the state. Ultimately, he gets a school, but the white people run him out of it and drive him to murder.References
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* 1926 plays Plays by Paul Green Broadway plays Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works Plays about race and ethnicity Plays set in North Carolina Fiction set in 1885 {{1920s-play-stub