Product Details

• Actors: Ethel Ayler, Reyno, Frances Foster, Janet League, Barbara Montgomery
• Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: May 13, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000094Q1H
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,944 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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By Leslie Lee. A complex and emotional drama, this "...touching and terrifying...wonderfully moving" play deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons (New York Times. It is also tells the story of the man's now-elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks, her youthful affairs with three different men who loved and abandoned her. Stars Frances Foster (Crooklyn) and Emmy-nominee Moses Gunn (Roots, Ragtime).

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5.0 out of 5 stars A COOL BREEZE, January 6, 2008

By	Guy De Federicis (east of here) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive) (DVD)

One of several Broadway Archive Series DVDs that chronicles televised productions of plays, The First Breeze of Summer, is an exquisite account of a black southern woman's solemn and painful retreating of her past as her family gathers for a birthday celebration during a suffocating heat wave. Civil rights aside, this story concentrates on the emotional plight of womanhood and the wolf that prowls in the back shadows of Christian conviction. A family Gospel singing scene with grandmother and grandson experiencing spiritual revelation is quietly shattering. The cast is superb, with notably, Frances Foster as the proud and saintly grandmother, and Reyno as her adoring and questioning grandson. The play, written by Leslie Lee, ran on Broadway during the 1975 season.

5.0 out of 5 stars class act for black theatre, June 3, 2009

By	Zara (Greenville nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The First Breeze of Summer (Broadway Theatre Archive) (DVD)

First Rate drama for for African Americans not stupid and low class and low rate like most movies made for an African American audiance.