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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 Heart Divided
5 Male, 1 Female
The Confederate flag - historical icon or racist symbol? This thought-provoking and gripping play sheds new light on a controversy that continues to divide the American heart When Kate’s liberal-minded…
A Life
1 Male, 3 Female
A Life is the story of Eunice, a feisty Jamaican woman, who refuses to go gently into her twilight years Eunice is 74 years old and recuperating from a heart attack -…
A Little Lower than the Angels - ePlay Download
4 Male, 3 Female
The major role that Rhode Island played in the American slave trade between 1725 and 1807 is a historical fact During this period, the infamous trade triangle of distilled rum for African slaves for West…
A Midnight Cry - The Underground Railroad to Freedom
8 Male, 6 Female
This moving musical drama is inspired by the true story of a young slave's journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad Whisperings of a railroad helping slaves across to the free states seem too…
A Woman Called Truth - Full-length
3 Male, 3 Female
“Well, children, where there’s so much racket, there must be something out of kilter.” So begins Sojourner Truth’s historic “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech; words which…
Ain’t Nothing But a Thang
3 Male, 3 Female
The Fazes family, like many others, has been thrown curves by life as long as they can remember Now they must once again step up to the plate. Fourteen-year-old Amber is HIV-positive, and…
Amazing Grace
4 Male, 7 Female
“Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own She also makes up her own stories,…
Battle Hymn
4 Male, 1 Female
From award-winning playwright Jim Leonard, this is the story of 16-year-old Martha’s epic pregnancy and her incredible search for motherhood, meaning, and love in a war-torn American landscape After being…
Beloved Friend
Large Mixed Cast
At the beginning, Kristin, a high school student in Minneapolis, is encouraged to correspond with an African girl of her own age who lives in Rhodesia Kristin’s relatively affluent…
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"…
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,…
Crowns
1 Male, 6 Female
A young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn Hats are everywhere in exquisite variety, and in this moving and celebratory musical play hats…
Deep Blue Funk
1 Male, 4 Female
Deep Blue Funk presents young and adult audiences with real life histories of urban teenage parents and portrays how these young people feel about becoming parents when they themselves are still growing…
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,…
