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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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Collateral Bodies

Collateral Bodies

0 Male, 7 Female

Erin Rachel Kaplan Published by Dramatic Publishing
CN7

Collateral Bodies explores the human rights violations that happen specifically to women, also known as "femicide" The experiences these women relate are experiences that are currently being lived by many…

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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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Cotton Patch Gospel

Cotton Patch Gospel

Large Mixed Cast

Tom Key & Russell Treyz & Harry Chapin Published by Dramatic Publishing
C05

This is based on the book The Cotton Patch Version of Matthew and John by Clarence Jordan in which the Gospel is presented in a setting of rural Georgia with country music songs As this Gospel begins,…

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