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LINDA COUSINS |
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aka Linda Cousins-Newton
Plays by Linda Cousins
85-Year Old Swinger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alonzo Players, Brooklyn | 1982 | ||||
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| 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 | #47604 | |||
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Genre: | 2 acts Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | An energetic and shockingly pregnant senior citizen stands up (with the help of her cane) for the rights of her twilight motherhood and a trembling marriage to her bedridden nursing home lover, as her doctor, family, and the world around her look on in amazement | |||||
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Capturing Dreams | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paul Robeson Theatre | 1982 | ||||
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 | #47602 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 2 acts | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young couple, who have long worked toward their dream of a husband-wife singing team, watch helplessly as their marriage is put to an exacting test by the skyrocketing of the wife's career while the husband is forced to become an unhappy backstage shadow | |||||
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First Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | ATA Theatre | 1985 | ||||
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 | #47599 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 2 acts | |||||
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Synopsis: | An escaped slave, resigned to the fact that he will never be reunited with his family again, remarries after several years and begins rearing a new family in the Reconstruction Era South. With steel-bent determination, his first wife, now freed, finds him after a desperate search. The play revolves around the dilemma faced by this ex-slave upon the appearance of "the first wife." | |||||
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Free Groceries Thursday Morning | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #7980 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1BM 3BF | |||||
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Synopsis: | Lillie, thirty five years ols, tries to hold the family together with pride and without welfare | |||||
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Karma | ||
| 1st Produced: | the Hudson Guild Theatre, New York | 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 | #47601 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | A huge and erudite "baby" is born to a woman who was his nagging wife in another lifetime. The former husband and wife, now mother and infant son, seek to resolve their karmic differences after the initial shock has worn off of their deja-vu hospital maternity ward reunion | |||||
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Night Before The Buryin' | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alonzo Players, Brooklyn | 1981 | ||||
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 | #7981 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1BM 3BF | |||||
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Synopsis: | An elderly southern black woman sits up all night with her husband's body during a solitary wake/vigil after his death. Through dramatic flashbacks she relives both the intensely painful and joyful experiences of their 50-year union in the Jim Crow South | |||||
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Return to Apt 8K (or Back Home from Detroit) | ||
| 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 | #47605 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, 2 acts | |||||
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Synopsis: | Concerns the unsuccessful efforts of a black woman to rescue her husband and children from grueling poverty by journeying to Detroit to pursue her dream of being a blues singer. Although she achieves her goal, her plan to reunite with her family is never realized. She falls into the life of a streetwalker and dies in poverty. Only after death does the family reunion occur. | |||||
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Sheer Guts | ||
| 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 | #7982 | |||
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Genre: | "Poemsical" Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2BM 3BF | |||||
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Synopsis: | A series of poems on black life | |||||
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Son Born from Jim-Lee and Me | ||
| 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 | #47600 | |||
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Genre: | History Play One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | takes place before the Civil War and is about a husband and wife, both slaves, who struggle over the notion of whether it is moral to have children who will undoubtedly live their lives as slaves | |||||
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Three-Piece Suit, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Paul Robeson Theatre | 1982 | ||||
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 | #47603 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, 2 acts | |||||
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Synopsis: | A middle-aged, highly educated black janitor, whose racist environment has never afforded him the opportunity to advance in life, stages a last act of protest on his job of many years by insisting on sweeping offices and cleaning bathrooms in an expensive three-piece suit and derby. His quiet defiance, and his influence on a maid who subsequently joins with him in a two-person picket line, almost bring to a standstill the operation of the firm for which he works | |||||
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