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Talking Bones
2 Male, 3 Female
In Talking Bones, Ruth, dignified, aristocratic and Bohemian, is trying to settle her affairs and family before she dies She hears voices and always interprets them to have special meaning in her life…
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 had…
The Blue House
2 Male, 4 Female
This is the story of 13-year-old Maricela, who lives in a vibrant Chicago neighborhood with a rich and sad history Haunting dreams of strangers from another time lead Maricela to an abandoned lot where…
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 by her…
The Brother/Sister Plays - In the Red and Brown Water & The Brothers Size & Marcus
A three play Collection from a major new playwright of the American theater Lyrical and mythic, provocative and contemporary, McCraney’s dramas of kinship, love, and heartache are set in the bayou of Louisiana…
The Brothers Size
3 Male, 0 Female
"The greatest piece of writing by an American playwright under 30 in a generation or more" ~ Chicago Tribune In the Louisiana bayou, big brother Ogun Size is hardworking and steady Younger brother Oshoosi…
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 on, cleverly enough, the set…
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…
