Editing The Emperor Jones (section)

===1920 premiere===
''The Emperor Jones'' was first staged on November 1, 1920, by the [[Provincetown Players]] at the [[Provincetown Playhouse]] in New York City.<ref>[http://www.eoneill.com/reviews/jones_frank.htm "'The Emperor Jones' by Eugene O’Neill]. Reviewed by Glenda Frank, Eoneill.com.</ref> [[Charles Sidney Gilpin]], a respected leading man from the all-black [[Harlem Renaissance theater companies|Lafayette Players]] of [[Lafayette Theatre (Harlem)|Harlem]], was the first actor to play the role of Brutus Jones on stage. There was some conflict over Gilpin's tendency to change O'Neill's use of the word "nigger" to Negro and colored during the play. This production was O'Neill's first real smash hit. The Players' small theater was too small to cope with audience demand for tickets, and the play was transferred to another theater. It ran for 204 performances and was hugely popular, touring in the States with this cast for the next two years.
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File:Gilpin-The-Emperor-Jones-1920-5.jpg|Brutus Jones (Charles S. Gilpin, left) at a slave auction (Scene 5)
File:Gilpin-The-Emperor-Jones-1920-3.jpg|Under the spell of hallucination, Jones fires at the wraiths of an auctioneer and a Southern planter (Scene 5)
File:Gilpin-The-Emperor-Jones-1920-4.jpg|Jones (right) wastes one of his precious bullets on the apparition of a witch doctor (Scene 7)
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