Black History Plays
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The Sugar Wife
A play about love, lust, prostitution and slavery ... A devout Quaker, her wealthy husband, a freed American slave and her emancipator come together in 1840s Dublin As they interact, each is revealed to…
The Theatre of Black Americans - A Collection of Critical Essays
From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, this book offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded…
The Ties That Bind - Inside the Belly of the Beast & Watermelon Rinds
3 Male, 5 Female
Inside the Belly of the Beast is about a black man who is trying to make it in corporate America, and about what he must do to get there 'We take the journey with him,' Taylor explained. 'First we see…
The Whipping Man
3 Male, 0 Female
April, 1865 - the Civil War is over and throughout the South slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated Into the chaos…
They Sing Christmas Up In Harlem - A Lenox Avenue Christmas Carol
6 Male, 6 Female
In Harlem, in the late 1920s, there lived a numbers running gangster by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge, who struck terror into the heart of the Harlem community But on a crisp Christmas Eve, it was Scrooge's…
To Be Young Gifted and Black
2 Male, 4 Female
A fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes, mood and images recreating the world of a great American woman and artist Uniquely and boldly, the play dramatically…
To Kill a Mockingbird - REVISED EDITION
Large Mixed Cast
Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life She and her brother, Jem, are being raised by their widowed father, Atticus,…
To Sir With Love
Large Mixed Cast
An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate,…
Voices of Black America - Historical Recordings of Poetry & Humour & Drama
This unique collection features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of…
Voices of Color - 50 Scenes and Monologues by 30 African American Playwrights
A trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights This major omnibus of contemporary American writing will serve as a primary resource for African American artists in search…