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The African Company Presents Richard III
5 Male, 2 Female
Earning their bread with satires of white high society, the African Company came to be known for debunking the sacred status of the English classics Many politically and racially motivated critics…
The Bluest Eye - USA/CANADA ONLY
2 Male, 6 Female
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved…
The Bow-Wow Club
6 Male, 4 Female
Five members of the original, all-male Bow-Wow Club from Harlem, along with their wives and lovers, get together at the Maryland home of Kirk and Diane Bright for a Fourth of July reunion…
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
5 Male, 6 Female
What’s a black girl from sunny Southern California to do? White people are blowing up black girls in Birmingham churches. Black people are shouting “Black is beautiful” while straightening…
The Cay
2 Male, 0 Female
The Cay relates the compelling journey of 11-year-old Phillip Enright - a journey toward adulthood Phillip is awakened on a February day in 1942 to learn that German submarines have attacked the neighboring…
The Conscientious Objector
Large Mixed Cast Male, 1 Female
Political theatre at its best, bringing to life an issue that has perplexed this nation since its founding - dissent during a time of war The play dramatizes a largely forgotten period in the life of Dr.…
The Death of the Black Jesus
5 Male, 3 Female
“Utilizing video, pop culture, political nostalgia for ‘60s protest, modem rap’s black rage and the current obsession with tabloid TV, playwright Barr sets his two-act play…
The Face of Emmett Till
7 Male, 3 Female
A true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two…
The Hounding of David Oluwale
In May 1969, David Oluwale’s body was pulled from the River Aire in Leeds, UK Eighteen months later, the investigation into his death was to rip apart the Yorkshire police force as two officers were…
The Member of the Wedding
6 Male, 7 Female
Carsom McCullers has adapted this Play from her own novel of the same name ... This explores the poignant loneliness of adolescence and the strange bond between black and white in the American south Jarvis…
