The Death of Bessie Smith
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The Death of Bessie Smith is a 1959 one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, written in 1959 and premiered in West Berlin the following year. The play is based around a series of conversations. Conversations between Bernie and his friend Jack, between Jack and an off-stage Bessie, and between black and white staff of a 'Whites-only' hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on the day the famous blues singer, Bessie Smith is brought in (and denied admittance) following a car crash.
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