The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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Actor: Barbara Montgomery, Ethel Ayler, Frances Foster, Janet League, ReynoDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kultur Video
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Movie Review: A COOL BREEZE
Summary: 5 Stars
One of several Broadway Archive Series DVDs that chronicles televised productions of plays, The First Breeze of Summer, is an exquisite account of a black southern woman's solemn and painful retreating of her past as her family gathers for a birthday celebration during a suffocating heat wave. Civil rights aside, this story concentrates on the emotional plight of womanhood and the wolf that prowls in the back shadows of Christian conviction. A family Gospel singing scene with grandmother and grandson experiencing spiritual revelation is quietly shattering. The cast is superb, with notably, Frances Foster as the proud and saintly grandmother, and Reyno as her adoring and questioning grandson. The play, written by Leslie Lee, ran on Broadway during the 1975 season.
Summary of The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive)
A complex and emotional drama, this ".touching and terrifying.wonderfully moving" play deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons (New York Times). It also tells the story of the man's now-elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks, her youthful affairs with three different men who loved and abandoned her. Stars Frances Foster (Crooklyn) and Emmy-nominee Moses Gunn (Roots, Ragtime).Musicals & Performing Arts DVD Video
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