ABSTRACT
What is the dramaturg’s responsibility for the creation of a production’s aesthetic – especially when it is heavily rooted in a specific cultural context? What kinds of thoughts, collaborations, and acknowledgments are needed to make sure that a story is culturally responsible? This case study will talk through several productions of August Wilson’s Century Cycle at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, to analyze how a theater’s productions of a series of works by August Wilson, directed and dramaturged by the same team (Ron OJ Parson and Martine Kei Green-Rogers), shape larger conversations about the importance of representation of Black culture onstage.
