Big White Fog

Big White Fog
1938 poster
Written by	Theodore Ward
Date premiered	April 7, 1938
Place premiered	Great Northern Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Original language	English
Genre	Drama
Setting	Chicago, Illinois

Big White Fog is a play by American playwright Theodore Ward and his first major work. The play follows the fictional Mason family across three generations between 1922 and 1933. Half of the family supports a return to Africa and Garveyism, while the other half of the family seeks the American Dream.^[1]

Completed in 1937, the play was first produced by the Negro Unit of the Chicago Federal Theatre Project in 1938 at the Great Northern Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. A 1940 revival of Big White Fog was the first production of the Negro Playwrights Company in New York. In 2007, Michael Attenborough directed its European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, and commissioned their resident playwright Roy Williams to write Out of the Fog, a modern look and comparison of contemporary blacks in England versus those in the 1920s in Chicago.