"The Vietnam War was raging at that particular time, so I wanted to do a positive play about a country character who was yearning for his home, as I was doing at Christmas…I drew on my experience growing up in the country - plowing mules, cropping tobacco, bootleggers, going to church. The rest was my imagination. I wanted to do something that could be performed on the streets - I love street theater. And I wanted my character to have a conscience."
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On what inspired him to write the play Home in “Lyrical, Uplifting HOME by Samm-Art Williams Comes to ICT” in Broadway World: Los Angeles (2017 Sep 15)
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Samm-Art Williams
Samm-Art Williams (January 20, 1946 – May 13, 2024) was an American playwright and screenwriter, and a stage and film/TV actor.
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