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Porgy and Bess

Director
Trevor Nunn
Year
1993
Runtime
3h 4m
Release
1993
Language
en
Country
GB · US

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

  • #sex worker
  • #black love
  • #glyndebourne
  • #disability
  • #opera
  • #black singer

  • Directed by

    Trevor Nunn

  • Written by

    DuBose Heyward & Dorothy Heyward

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