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Black History Plays
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Flag Day - Good Clean Fun & Down and Dirty
5 Male, 1 Female
A play in two plays, Flag Day examines white/black relations in our society with an unblinking eye The first play - Good Clean Fun - is a darkly funny office comedy pitting two workers - one black,…
Flight
2 Male, 4 Female
In 1858, on a plantation in Georgia, a young mother is suddenly sold, leaving behind her husband and their five-year-old son Through a magical evening of storytelling, music and dance, the enslaved community…
Four Black Revolutionary Plays - Experimental Death Unit 1 & A Black Mass & Madheart & Great Goodness of Life
These four one-act plays deal with African-American experience of today, their central elements being love and hatred echoed in violently explosive words, actions, thoughts and metaphor Each is a powerful…
Free Like Br’er Rabbit
4 Male, 2 Female
When young Harris Chandler inherits his father’s plantation, Remus, Toby, Sarah and Janie, all the friends of his childhood, suddenly become his property Simon, the wicked overseer, is determined…
Freedom Is My Middle Name
3 Male, 3 Female
“You got to have goals and dreams. You got to find love in your hearts!” With these words, and the help of a magic quilt, five urban students are taken on a journey into the past…
From the Mississippi Delta
0 Male, 3 Female
The journey begins in Greenwood, Mississippi — the Delta ... “In my Delta town, some black girls aspired to become the woman, the mistress of some wealthy white man. But the darker ones like me could only…
He Held Me Grand
8 Male, 1 Female
This focuses on one American family and 100 years of its history - music, secrets, humor, tragedy, reunions, death, war, racism, and ghosts all play a part in the rich fabric that helps create a universal…
Hedy Understands Anxiety
3 Male, 3 Female
Hedy Grier, an African-American woman, has just buried her grandmother, Maxine With no ties, Hedy uproots herself, sells her Harlem brownstone, and embarks on a cross-country trip to search for…
Hidden Gems - Black British Playwrights
B is for Black by Courttia Newland & Moj of the Antartic by Mojisola Adebayo & The Sons of Charlie Paora by Lennie James & Brown Girl in the Ring by Valerie Mason-John & Something Dark by Lemn Sissay &…
Home on the Mornin’ Train - USA/Canada ONLY
7 Male, 8 Female
1839, Talledega, Alabama and slavery is alive and doing quite well in the United States 1939, Hamburg, Germany and Hitler has called for the extermination of Jews Jewish children Rifka and Aaron are sent…
