![]() ![]() The audience is also introduced to Tateh, a Jewish, immigrant artist with a daughter, who has just arrived in America. As such, when they come across less successful white people whose racist actions (vandalizing Coalhouse’s car) are supported by law enforcement, Sarah and Coalhouse are forced to decide whether to act in a complicit manner or to push back and risk the loss of everything. His appearance is handsome and well put-together, which is more than what can be said of most of the white men they encounter. Sarah and Coalhouse are up against a society who feels they should not have the success they have earned Coalhouse is a talented, successful musician, and he is a black man. He seeks her out, and the two (three, including their son Coalhouse Walker III) eventually strive to be a family. presents his keen musical talents and reveals himself to be the father of the child Sarah had abandoned. ![]() ![]() Shortly after Father departs for travel on a year-long expedition to the North Pole, Mother finds an abandoned newborn – a black child – and saves his mother, Sarah, who has made the attempt to desert him. RAGTIME opens with a wealthy white family consisting of Mother, Father, Younger Brother, and Little Boy. Issues that are quite obviously neither short lived nor unfamiliar an entire century later, echo loudly. RAGTIME takes place in the early 1900s when numerous social issues prevail: different races are navigating what it looks like to live amongst one another women are working towards equal status, both legally and within their personal lives immigrants are striving for a hopeful future with the question of whether success will follow, an answer which can only be determined upon arrival. RAGTIME is a disturbingly timely tale with beauty woven through from start to finish. Doctorow’s 1975 novel RAGTIME, this production premiered in 1996 in Toronto, eventually hitting the New York Broadway stage in 1998 where it was nominated for 13 Tony Awards. (The original end date of October 20 th was extended by one week due to popular demand, so you know this one’s got greatness slathered all over!) Based on E.L. The early 1900s are beckoning you to experience RAGTIME at Arden Theatre between today and October 27 th. The Ensemble of RAGTIME at Arden Theatre Company. ![]()
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