An Awareness of drama weaves itself into the nature of African existence, but black theater as a movement got its start in America in the 1960s, an artistic outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Larry Leon Hamlin, founder and currently artistic director of the North Carolina Black Repertory company, was living in New York at the time. He had left his native Reidsville, N.C., and moved northwards “trying to see what life was all about.” He became an actor, involved in the world of theatre, the camaraderie, the active New York black theatre networks…