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Wednesday, January 12, 2022 The Black Doctor Act 1 - Originally written by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois • Adapted by Ira Aldridge for English stage - Aldridge played Fabian - Fabian is a former slave and is the “black doctor” • He uses strength and medical knowledge to save many lives - One of these is the life of white aristocrat Pauline - Pauline and Fabian fall in love • She tracks him down bc he has disappeared to give him gold for his services because he initially refused payment - She tells him she has seen a strange man near her house • We learn that this is Fabian who has been doing this bc he loves her - Pauline’s mixed-race foster sister is in love with a white clerk • Pauline says she will help her sister marry him in spite of racial prejudices and. Fabian begins to have hope for them - Fabian learns that Pauline has been betrothed to St. Luce • He takes her to a grotto by the sea hoping the ocean will kill them both when the tide comes in • Pauline confesses she has loved him forever when she learns she will die - Fabian takes her to a rock and they get saved by a passing ship 1 Act 2 - House of pauline’s fam - Her mom actually isn’t dead - Fabian and Pauline have been secretly married • He is officially employed to her fam as a servant - Her mom thinks v little of him - Mom wants Pauline to marry St Luce so she can be a lady of honor to the queen • This is assumably Marie antionette • Pauline tries to take poison rather than abandon Fabian - He takes the poison from her and flees the room Act 3 - Bastille storming of 1789 • St luce and fabian are both in diff cells of the Bastille - St Luce SUCKS • He is stuck up and is pissy bc he can’t have luxuries in prison - Fabian has been living in misery trying to communicate with his friend Andre to get news of what’s happening outside • They free the prisoners but it is too late as Fabian has fallen into insanity bc he thinks Pauline is dead Act 4 - Time jump to 1793 - Reign of Terror 2 - Pauline is considered an enemy of the people bc she’s responsible for the crimes against Fabian • He is now revered - Andre has been taking care of fabian bc he is still insane - Pauline is gonna get killed by the mob until Fabian sees her • He sees her and we think she might be saved but then he sees St Luce beside her and a portrait of the Marchioness, her mother - He believes the marchioness is still alive and denies being Paulines husband due to not wanting to enrage her mother • Someone in the mob fires a gun t pauline and fabian throws himself in front of the bullet - He produces proof of their marriage with his dying strength and saves pauline THE END 3