Week 29: Hurricane Season

I completed Series 4 of O’Neal’s papers and composed the series description. Of interest is correspondence to Douglas Turner Ward  of the Negro Ensemble Company pertaining to O’Neal’s play, Hurricane Season, in which O’Neal describes the significance of his play was to highlight the confluence of social and individual concerns. In his letter, O’Neal ponders why good people who become involved in social movements find it so difficult to balance their relationship with their families. Hurricane Season addresses this concern. 

Also of interest is a letter from writer, Tom Dent asking O’Neal to write a piece on the Free Southern Theater for the Southern Exposure magazine, Civil Rights Special Issue titled, “Civil Rights: Twenty-Five Years After Montgomery.”

Next week I will begin the Writings series of O’Neal papers.