Black History Plays
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Big White Fog
Large Mixed Cast
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…
Black Comedy - Nine Plays
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…
Black Girl
2 Male, 6 Female
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…
Black Heroes - Seven Plays
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…
Black Nativity - A Gospel Song Play
“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…
Black Plays 3 - Boy With Beer by Paul Boakye & More
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"…
Collateral Bodies
0 Male, 7 Female
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…
Contemporary African Plays - Death and the King’s Horseman & More
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…
Cotton Patch Gospel
Large Mixed Cast
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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