
A Free Man of Color
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John Guare’s 'A Free Man of Color' arrived at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 2010 under the banner of Lincoln Center Theater, capturing multiple major Tony Award nominations and standing as an intellectually fierce historical epic. Set against the high-stakes, opulent landscape of New Orleans in 1801 on the immediate precipice of the Louisiana Purchase, the sprawling, panoramic farce tracks Jacques Cornet, a wealthy, narcissistic Black bi-racial gentleman who rules high society as its most desired bachelor, collapsing into systemic ruin when racial codes shift under American governance. Directed by George C. Wolfe, the production starred Jeffrey Wright.

