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FLASHBACK 1990: Leslie Kelen reports on the difficulties that face a Black actor in a very nasty role.
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Title: The Dark Side of Personal Power Author: Leslie Kelen Date: Aug. 14, 1990 Reviled for its gratuitous violence, dismissed as crude melodrama, and even questioned as to its Shakespearean authorship, Titus Andronicus , an early work of the poet/playwright, is making its…
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