D A BECK
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by D A Beck
Black Is |
| 1st Produced: | Creighton University Summer Repertory Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | The repertory was a professional theater company that traveled within the state of Nebraska. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A compilation of sayings adapted into a dramatic presentation. | |||||
Playing the Tables |
| 1st Produced: | The Theatre-Studio, Inc., New York | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review (North Carolina State University) (1995) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Publication of Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review was delayed. The periodical was distributed in March 1997 (but dated with year 1995). Meanwhile the play had received its first production, and was no longer unproduced, so the bio in the periodical was revised to indicate the production of the play. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A woman deals with sexual harassment occurring in a situation of foolish intrigue by empowered but unwitting perpetrators. | |||||
Strides |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Full-length drama, two acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | This play is the story of an African-American door-to-door salesman who peddles credit on electric kitchen gadgets. When customers and companions resist being indebted to him, he takes big risks to keep them beholden. Costs of the ordeal are great for all involved, with things promising to be never the same. In this tale love, betrayal, and humiliation ravel and unravel; so do courage, fear, self-regard, self-doubt, and disappointment - with determination and hope remaining constant, and redemption a possibility. Set against a backdrop of local civil rights demonstrations in 1963, the play points to the 21st century. | |||||
Up in Smoke |
| 1st Produced: | The Theatre-Studio, Inc., New York | 1995 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review (North Carolina State University) (1993) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Play had a staged reading at the 1992 Denver Black Arts Festival. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Play deals with the impact of illegal drugs on a mother-son relationship. | |||||