- Collection:
- 7 Stages
- Title:
- Faye Allen oral history interview, 2013-07-25
- Creator:
- Allen, Faye, 1949-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rink, Hillery
- Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2013-07-25
- Subject:
- Theater
7 Stages Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Allen, Faye, 1949-
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Faye Allen was born in Brooklyn, New York July 16, 1949. From a young age Faye grew up around theater and had a deep appreciation for the arts. She was raised in a very diverse culture in New York and attended Catholic school. Her first official job in theater was with Open City, which later became Open City Children’s Theater. It was at the Theater where she had a chance encounter with Del Hamilton while he was working with the Theatrical Outfit. After their meeting, and the split of the Theatrical Outfit, they created 7 stages in 1978.
In the interview Faye Allen reviews her early life and how she became engaged by the theater arts while living in New York. She recaps her life as she transitioned from the Northeast to the South, and how she experienced the cultural change from a multiracial environment to only seeing black and white. Allen enlightens us about her work in theater and how she met Del Hamilton and formed 7 stages. She reviews the issues that 7 stages wanted to address through theater such as ideas of rape, transgender, and HIV. Allen discusses how she and Hamilton decided on the name 7 stages from I Ching. Allen also discusses how their plays caused such controversy amongst the Ku Klux Klan, and how their activism stirred the minds of their audiences. The interview indulges in some of the current projects 7 stages is working on with DAH Theater, and discusses Faye and Del’s life post-retirement. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SevenStages/id/6707
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Allen, Faye, interviewed by Hillery Rink, July 25, 2013, 7 Stages Theatre Records, Popular Music and Culture Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:56:15
- Original Collection:
- Popular Music and Culture Collection
7 Stages Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) Records (M219) - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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