Climb every mountain.(ROAMING SPOTLIGHT)(Hannibal of the Alps)(Struggles of Langston Hughes)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, May, 2005 by Johnson, Cassandra
DETROIT, MICH.: Hannibal of Carthage battled men and the elements to cross the Alps with every manner of obstacle in his way; Langston Hughes surmounted oppression and racism to become a major artistic and political voice for African Americans. Michael Dinwiddie's Hannibal of the Alps, debuting at Detroit Repertory.
Theatre in June, explores the thematic correlation between the two struggles. Hannibal spotlights 24-year-old Hughes during the year he lived in Paris, and Dinwiddie's aim was to discover and examine the inspirations ...
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