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Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
5 Male, 4 Female
A celebration of the life and voice of African-American contralto Marian Anderson Taking place on the eve of the First Annual World Negro Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal, 1966, this play with music…
Familiar
2 Male, 3 Female
The world beyond the Frisby’s front door is a threatening tangle Mom Maya resides in a hole on the beach, dad Fred is long gone, and the family’s beloved clam shack is being infiltrated…
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…
