PrepTest 145 - Section 1 - Passage 1 - Question 6

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Intro to Topic · Federal Theater Project

Government funded theater program. Short lived but big.

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Main Topic · Negro Units, an important legacy of the FTP

Units dedicated to producing African American plays for African American audiences.

Main Point · Unit came close to founding a national black theatre

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Background · Harlem Renaissance

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Premise · Debate on what kinds of plays the Negro Units should produce

E.g., folk drama with rural culture; urban and contemporary drama; adapt white playwrights' plays.

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Premise · The larger debates that reflect a diversity of views

Blend into mainstream culture or be different? Aim for black or white audience? Try to instruct or entertain?

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Example · The Swing Mikado

Main Point · FTP allowed the Negro Units to create art that reflected the diversity of African American culture

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First, read what the Swing Mikado was — a musical that cast African American performers in an ironic adaptation of a white classic. Then, read about the different viewpoints in the debate mentioned before the author brings up the Swing Mikado. Notice that some producers “advocated adapting dramas written by white playwrights for performance by African American acting troupes.” That’s what the Swing Mikado was — a white classic that didn’t originally involve an African American cast. This is why the Swing Mikado “inverted the minstrel tradition” — African Americans were cast in roles that were not originally for African Americans.

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There’s no suggestion that the Swing Mikado was uncontroversial.

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There’s no evidence the Swing Mikado wasn’t instructive. So we have no reason to think the producers of the Swing Mikado were opposed to instruction in plays.

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It’s not clear that the Swing Mikado is a “folk drama exploring rural roots and culture.” We have no reason to think that a white classic involves rural roots and culture.

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The Swing Mikado was a white classic — this suggests it doesn’t depict the contemporary problems of African Americans.

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Supported, because we’re told some producers “advocated adapting dramas written by white playwrights for performance by African American acting troupes.” That’s what the Swing Mikado was — a white classic that didn’t originally involve an African American cast.

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