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ED BULLINS (1935 - ) |
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Nationality: African-American Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: J D Kramer, Esq., Attorney |
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Plays by Ed Bullins |
American Flag Ritual, The | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5219 | |||
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Genre: | Protest Ritual One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1BM | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man makes a solemn ritual of pissing on the American flag | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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American Griot | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5220 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Caesar | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Our Place Theatre Project, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56852 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Commercial 2 | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5221 | |||
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Genre: | 1 ActTV Didactic Sketch One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two fighting black men become black brothers | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Boy X Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Box Theatre, Boston | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #89221 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ernie arranges the funeral for his mother. She considered herself as the "New Negro Woman" and hoped that Ernie would be a leader of men | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bullins Does Bullins | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oakland, California | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5222 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Clara's Ole Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5223 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dominance of gross black woman over pretty friend illustrates today's dishonest and hedonistic viewpoint. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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C'mon Back To Heavenly House | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amherst, Massachusetts | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5224 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Corner, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Company of boston, Boston, MA | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5225 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5bm, 1bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Problems for black man wishing to settle down with woman bearing his child in a succession of streetcorner scenes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daddy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5226 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5bm, 5bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is the sixth play in a twenty play cycle about Blacks in contemporary American life. A father returns to the family he had abandoned and attempts to make amends for his neglect | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Death List | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Black, University of the Streets, NYC | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5227 | |||
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Genre: | Didactic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 1bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Black revolutionary cannot be dissuaded by his wife from reading real names of black petitioners in favour of Israel whom he wishes to kill. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Devil Catchers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5228 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dialect Determinism (or The Rally): Theme Is Blackness | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco Drama Circle, Firehouse Repertory Theatre, San Francisco, CA | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5229 | |||
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Genre: | Satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7bm, 4bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At a rally of Harlem blacks strong feelings emerge against both whites and black opportunist leaders | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Doorway, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Company One | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56853 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Do-Wah | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5230 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | set in the 60's | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Duplex, The: A Black Love Fable In Four Movements | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5231 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7bm, 5bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Corruption of white values upon black culture in the getto slum houses. Set during the early sixties in a duplex in southern California, this play tells the story of Velma Best's search for completeness, for a love that transcends sex | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Eight-Minute Marathon | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
Company: | Centastage Performance Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56854 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Electronic Nigger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5232 | |||
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Genre: | Satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2bm, 1bf, 1wm, 2wf, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The collective recognition of black artists and intellectuals of the 1960's versus the white literary establishment. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fabulous Miss Marie, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater (sic) in the February 1972 edition of their SCRIPTS series. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5233 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6bm, 4bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The various dilemmas and confusions of the so-called black middle class | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Game Of Adam And Eve, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5234 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Shirley Tarbell | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gentleman Caller, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Theater, Brooklyn, NY | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "A Black Quartet", New American Library, New York, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5235 | |||
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Genre: | Diadactic Melodarama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2bm, 2bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In an allegory for white American society a young black maid kills her white employer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goin' A Buffalo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading, American Place Theatre, NYC | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5236 | |||
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Genre: | Tragifantasy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An examination of the lifestyles of Los Angeles junkies, musicians and prostitutes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gone | ||
| 1st Produced: | May 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Boston Theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays Boston Theater Marathon XI - 2009 Anthology - 50 Ten Minute Plays ~ By Kate Snodgrass (ed) - Smith and Kraus, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-15752577164 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114645 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
| Now an annual tradition, The Boston Theater Marathon utilizes hundreds of actors and dozens of directors to sponsor 50 ten-minute plays in 10 hours (five plays per hour!), each one supported by a different New England theatre company | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harlem Diva | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Ed Bullins Twelve Plays and Selected Writings" published by University of Michigan Press (2006) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0472031825 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93040 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Hellzapoppin | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93041 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | by Abe Burrows. Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bill Heyer and Carolyn Leigh; book by Ed Bullins, Bill Heyer and Hank Beebe | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Helper, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5237 | |||
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Genre: | Protest Satire One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 2wm, 2wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A white family engages the aid of a black man and then demonstrates their ignorance in various ways | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Home Boy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perry Street Theater, NYC | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5238 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4bm, 5bf | |||||
Notes: | music Aaron Bell, lyrics Bullins | |||||
Synopsis: | Two southern black men plan to emigrate to the North. One does, but both are victims, survivors, and casualties of the America of the 1950s and 1960s | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House Party | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5239 | |||
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Genre: | Soul Happening | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Pat Patrick, lyrics by Bullins | |||||
Synopsis: | A spectacular cowboys-and-Indians melodrama updated though a role-reversal in favour of the Indians Elizabeth Hardwick | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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How Do You Do? | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco Drama Circle, San Francisco, CA | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Illuminations Press, Mill Valley, California, 1965 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5240 | |||
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Genre: | Nonsense Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2bm, 1bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Poses image of false black stereotypes as seen through white eyes. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Am Lucy Terry | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5241 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 1bf, 1wm, 1wf, 1 Indian | |||||
Notes: | Commissioned by the N.Y. State Council on the Arts | |||||
Synopsis: | This play for young Americans concerns Lucy Terry, a young slave poet illegally educated by her mistress, who tails in love and marries Abijah Prince, a free black man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5242 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In New England Winter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Henry St. Playhouse, NYC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "New Plays from the Black Theatre", Bantam, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5243 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6bm, 2bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The problems two brothers face as the elder tries to recapture his wife. A continuation of the life of Cliff Dawson, one of the characters from In the Wine Time, by the same playwright | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In The Wine Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette, NYC | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5244 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7bm, 7bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sex, drink and dreams provide an escape from the sordid reality of Philadelphia slums. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It Bees Dat Way | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ambiance Lunch-Hour Theatre, London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5245 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4bm, 2bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The whites in the audience are abused and ridiculed by six Harlem blacks. Street people interacting with liberal-minded whites and the former's realization of what must be done about the genocidal plot of the white establishment | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It Has No Choice | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts West Repertory Theatre School, San Francisco, CA | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5246 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jo Anne!!! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Church Theatre, NYC | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5247 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5bm, 5bf, 5wm, 2wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An examination of the Jo Anne Little rape/murder case in a North Carolina prison | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Leavings | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5248 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Malcolm '71, or Publishing Blackness | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Black Scholar, vol. 6, no. 9, June, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5249 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 1wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mr. Blackman, a black writer and revolutionary, receives an inquiry about publishing from a white girl whose dog is named Malcolm | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Man Who Dug Fish, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5250 | |||
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Genre: | Absurd Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 3wm | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man buys a large fish and a shovel and places them in a deposit box at the bank for ten years-an absurd action taken in an absurd white world | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Michael | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5251 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Minor Scene, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts West Repertory Theatre School, San Francisco, CA | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5252 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 1wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man picks up a white woman; their interactions are the focus of this play | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mystery Of Phillis (sic)Wheatley, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5253 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Children's Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2bm, 1bf, 2wm, 2wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A struggle of black and white forces for the soul of the famous poet as she rises to inter-national fame | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Next Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bronx Community College, NY | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | : Spirit, the Magazine of Black Culture, vol. I, no, 1, Spring, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5254 | |||
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Genre: | Protest Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm, 1wm, 1bb | |||||
Notes: | in City Stops | |||||
Synopsis: | The incident is based on the shooting of the black poet, Henry Dumas, by a white policeman | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Night Of The Beast | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5255 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3bm, 2bf | |||||
Notes: | extras | |||||
Synopsis: | Revolutionary group combats the forces of police brutality as it attempts to govern its own community | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nubian Coronation Prologue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
Company: | Boston Playwrights' Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56855 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One for the Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | Our Place Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56856 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One-Minute Commercial | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5256 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | For Black Community Broadcasting | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pig Pen, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5257 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7bm, 1bf, 2wm, 1wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The news of Malcolm X's murder causes friction. Pot smokers, wine drinkers, and a need for white sex partners make up a group of pseudo Blacks who think they have it all together, but don't | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Play Of The Play, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5258 | |||
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Genre: | Media happening | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Invites audience participation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Psychic Pretenders, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5259 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Raining Down Stars: Sepia Stories of The Dark Diaspora | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5260 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rally, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5261 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ritual To Raise The Dead And Foretell The Future, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5262 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Best Short Plays of 1990", Applause, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5263 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Ed Bullins and Marvin X | |||||
Synopsis: | Depicts the aftermath of the Black revolution through the eyes of a "down- and-out" ex-Panther Huey P. Newton | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sepia Star, Or Chocolate Comes To The Cotton Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stage 73, NYC | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5264 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics Mildred Kayden. Lib Ed Bullins | |||||
Synopsis: | About a rhythm and blues singer | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Short Bullins | ||
| 1st Produced: | 03 Mar 1972 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108649 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Short Play For A Small Theatre | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5265 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man applies ritual makeup and then shoots each white person in the audience, one by one | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Son, Come Home, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5266 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2bm, 2bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Impoverished and superstitious mother is visited by black poet son whom she hasn't seen for years. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spaces | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Our Place Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56857 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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State Office Building Curse | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5267 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A "planned" happening of the opening and closing of the State Office Building in Harlem, a building built, despite community objections, in Harlem by then governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Steve And Velma | ||
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5268 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Storyville | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mandeville Theatre, University of California, La Jolla | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5269 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 2 child and chorus | |||||
Notes: | music and lyrics Mildred Kayden. Lib Ed Bullins | |||||
Synopsis: | A musical set in New Orleans, 1917, a story of love and jazz music. It follows how a notorious prize fight sent the musicians, bands and entertainers "rollin' up the river" to St. Louis, Chicago and gave America's gift to the world - JAZZ! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Street Party, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5270 | |||
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Genre: | Short Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | title "A Street Play" ?? | |||||
Synopsis: | A suggested dialogue about political-racial events that invites improvisation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Street Sounds | ||
| 1st Produced: | 14 Oct 1970 | |||||
Company: | LaMama GPA Nucleus Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5271 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 12bm, 5bf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sundry voices of the black population of inner cities | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Taking Of Miss Janie, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Famous Plays of the 70's", Dell, New York, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5272 | |||
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Genre: | Satirical drama Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3bm, 2bf, 2wm, 2wf | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This play is the sequel to Bullins' The Pig Pen. A tale about the spirit of the sixties, told in a story of a rape-a friendly rape, but a rape nonetheless. Janie is a white student at City College who meets Monty, a Black at a Creative Writing course. He's determined to have her, even if he has to wait 10 years. Their story is both tragic and revealing | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ten-Minute Play, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | New African Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56858 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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That' Day | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | New African Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56859 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Theme Is Blackness, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts West, San Francisco, CA | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5273 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | To be performed before predominantly white audiences. The house and stage lights are turned off for twenty minutes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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To Raise The Dead And Foretell The Future | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theater, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Ed Bullins Twelve Plays and Selected Writings" published by University of Michigan Press (2006) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0472031825 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93042 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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We Righteous Bombers | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5274 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Albert Camus; as Kingsley B Bass Jr | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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You Gonna Let Me Take You Out Tonight, Baby | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts / West | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Arts, ed. by Ahmad Alhamisi and Harum Wangara, Detroit: Black Arts Pub. Co, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5275 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1bm | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Black man tries to hustle one of his girl friend's friends | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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