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50 African American Audition Monologues
Finding authentic African American material has never been easy for actors But Gus Edwards continues to remedy that situation with this third collection of powerful, original monologues for African American…
A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick
3 Male, 2 Female
A Cool Dip offers glimpses into the lives of Abebe, a young Ethopian man with a passion for the unlikely combination of Christianity and ecology, and the family that houses him during his college studies…
A Russian Trilogy - Three Sisters Two & Yelena & On the Lake
This second volume of de Wet’s plays brings together three pieces which take as their inspiration the life and work of Anton Chekhov Yelena uses the characters from Uncle Vanya and focuses on the interpersonal…
African American Humor - The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today - RE-PRINTING - NO DATE
The black view of America has always been most vividly expressed in humor. This Collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satires, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, stage routines, and snaps…
Boesman and Lena
2 Male, 1 Female
Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans but nothing to cook in them. They are the dregs of society, the…
Conference of the Birds
7 Male, 6 Female
This play presents you and your actors with an occasion for imagination and magic. The only suggestion of a set is a large oriental carpet ... “The play itself is a flying carpet, gliding us aloft…
Conference of the Birds
This is the true story of an extraordinary journey. In December 1972, the director Peter Brook and an international troupe of actors (Helen Mirren and Yoshi Oida among them) left their Paris base to emerge…
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…
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - An Anthology of 16 Plays
This anthology crosses between women's studies, ethnic studies, and literature, compiling plays written by contemporary women of color. This is the first anthology devoted to a cross-section of ethnic…
Death Catches the Hunter
2 Male, 1 Female
When the Prophet Emefa receives the word of God he founds a new church, and the people flock to see the miracles he performs. He cures the paralysed and restores sight to the blind. His final act of daring…
Death and the King’s Horseman
Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King’s favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the…
Death and the King’s Horseman - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary & Notes
Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A…
Egyptian-Arabic One Act Plays - A First Reader - Not English language - Arabic only
Written in Arabic, this is meant to be a First Reader in Egyptian-Arabic drama for European students Each of the five short plays has its own peculiarities and dialect, but each is presented in both Arabic…
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…
From Zia With Love & A Scourge of Hyacinths
*** 50% Discount *** When the Military decrees that a crime carrying a prison sentence now retroactively warrants summary execution, confusion and fear permeate a society where the brutality and injustice…
Great Scenes From Minority Playwrights - 74 Scenes of Cultural Diversity
This Collection of scenes by outstanding minority playwrights also includes a history of Minority Theatre and a Chapter on working with the scenes It's divided into the following five Categories ... Native-American…
Highlights & Footlights - A Tribute to South African Stage and Screen by Photgrapher Bob Martin
A unique collection of black and white photographs ... Bob Martin shares some of the work he so passionately created and collected in the 40 years he spent as a South African theater and movie publicity…
How Long is Never? - Darfur - A Response - Seven Short Plays
After Rwanda the world said never again These seven short plays explore the nature of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan “A potent reminder that theatre, among its myriad other functions, has…
Journey of the Tall Horse - A Story of African Theatre - includes Tall Horse by Khephra Burns
With its mix of magnificent puppets, live actors, captivating costumes and evocative music, video projection and dance, Tall Horse has enchanted theatregoers world wide This book includes the playscript…
King Baabu
This chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup and exchanges his general’s uniform for a robe and crown In the manner of Jarry’s Ubu Roi, this is a ferocious,…
Marching for Fausua
Marching for Fausa was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1993 and deals with political corruption in the Federal Republic of Songhai, a fictional country on the west coast of Africa. A young…
Missing & Crossing & Miracle
These three plays are folkloric and ostensibly naive pieces of Afrikaner storytelling They deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal order and as such are eloquent and haunting…
