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Black History Plays

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Beloved Friend

Beloved Friend

Large Mixed Cast

Nancy Pahl Gilsenan Published by Dramatic Publishing
B52

    At the beginning, Kristin, a high school student in Minneapolis, is encouraged to correspond with an African girl of her own age who lives in Rhodesia Kristin’s relatively affluent…

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Big White Fog

Big White Fog

Large Mixed Cast

Theodore Ward Published by Nick Hern Books

A poignant family drama set in Chicago’s South Side in the 1920s against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family…

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Black Comedy - Nine Plays

Black Comedy - Nine Plays

Pamela Faith Jackson - ed Published by Applause Books
1557832781

The humor of African-American life is inextricably tied to the humor on the African-American stage, its character shaped by the contradictions of being Black and Bewildered and Bothered in the New World…

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Black Eagles

Black Eagles

Large Mixed Cast Male, 1 Female

Leslie Lee Published by Samuel French Inc

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Black Girl

Black Girl

2 Male, 6 Female

J.E. Franklin Published by Dramatists Play Service

    Trapped in a life which can lead nowhere, Billie Jean has dropped out of school and secretly taken a job as a dancer in a local bar, her ultimate goal being to become a ballet dancer But…

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Black Heroes - Seven Plays

Black Heroes - Seven Plays

Errol Hill - editor Published by Applause Books
9781557830272

Collected here for the first time are plays - many of which have been unavailable for decades - which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery…

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Black Nativity - A Gospel Song Play

Black Nativity - A Gospel Song Play

Langston Hughes Published by Dramatic Publishing
B72

“His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis” This is how a critic described this Christmas musical by Langston…

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Black Plays 3 - Boy With Beer by Paul Boakye & More

Black Plays 3 - Boy With Beer by Paul Boakye & More

Yvonne Brewster - ed Published by Methuen
9780413691309

This is a wide-ranging selection by theatre director Yvonne Brewster Boy with Beer by Paul Boakye is a funny and sexy story of a Guardian-reading gay photographer who finds his fantasy "African Prince"…

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Blind Date - ePlay Download

Blind Date - ePlay Download

1 Male, 1 Female

Shayne McCreadie Published by Cyberpress

Mulatto girl and a white guy have been set up by mutual friends for a blind date Both, having suffered dating mishaps and social blunders in the past, on recalling past escapades, become increasingly uneasy…

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Contemporary African Plays - Death and the King’s Horseman & More

Contemporary African Plays - Death and the King’s Horseman & More

Martin Banham & Jane Plastow - eds Published by Methuen
413723305

Contemporary African Plays - Death and the King's Horseman & Woza Albert & The Chattering and the Song & The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco & The Other Way The only current anthology to survey the rich…

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