J E FRANKLIN   (1937 - )

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J E FRANKLIN

Another Morning Rising

1st Produced:

Company of Us, Greenwood, SC

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Black Girl

1st Produced:

Black Arts / West

1971

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1973

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Domestic Drama, 2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

6

Parts other:

1b 1g

Notes:

Won for the author a Drama Desk Award, 1971-72, as most promising playwright. First prod. as a videotape production (presumably by NFT) on NET, WGBHIBoston, 1969. Prod. Off-Off-Bway by NFT, at St. Augustine's Chapel, New York; transferred to Bway at the Theatre De Lys, June 16, 1971-June 16, 1972, playing for one year (247 perfs.); dir, by SHAUNEILLE PERRY. With Kishasha, Arthur French, Lorraine Ryder, Gloria Edwards, Loretta Greene, Louise Stubbs, MINNIE GENTRY, Jimmy Hayeson, and SAUNDRA SHARP. Prod. by the Bennett Coil. Little Theatre, Oct. 18-20, 1973, for 3 perfs. Made into a film prod. by Lee Savin, released by Cinema Releasing, 1972, and dir, by OSSIE DAVIS. With Leslie Uggams, Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Peggy Petitt, and RUBY DEE

Synopsis:

Trapped in a life which can lead nowhere, Billie Jean has dropped out of school and secretly taken a job as a dancer in a local bar, her ultimate goal being to become a ballet dancer. But her ambitions bring her into conflict with her envious sisters, both of whom have been locked into dreary marriages too early, and her mother, who has given up on her own children and now lavishes her care and affection on her "foster daughters" -industrious girls to whom she has transferred her own frustrated hopes. Billie Jean must fight a multiplicity of prejudices - family, sex, colour, class and economic - to win an education and forge her own identity. But with her grandmother's strength and trust to embolden her, Billie Jean breaks free, establishing at last a tenuous but hopeful relationship with her mother and taking the first sure steps toward a life which will, at least, be of her own making.

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J E FRANKLIN

Christchild

1st Produced:

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, USA >>>

1981

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993, Smith and Kraus Books, 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

full length Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

4

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Born with six fingers on his left hand, young Tom is rejected by his superstitious father. To win his father's praise and love, and to earn enough money for an operation on his hand, he wrestles a bear.

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J E FRANKLIN

Coming to the Mercy Seat

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

The First Decatet of Ten-Minute Plays SunRaSon Publications, 2004

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

plays Ten Min

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A collection of Ten-Minute plays on the role of mercy in the art of reconciliation

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J E FRANKLIN

Creation, The

1st Produced:

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1975

Company:

Eureka Theatre Group

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

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J E FRANKLIN

Crusade for Justice

1st Produced:

- - -

1975

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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Music:

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Genre:

Film Treatment

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

On the Life of Ida-Welles Barnett, antilynch crusader, apparently written for the Boston Committee, 1975

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J E FRANKLIN

Cut Out The Lights And Call The Law

1st Produced:

NFT, NY (may not have been produced)

1972

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Drama, 2 acts

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

4BM 5BF

Notes:

Prod. by NEC, 1970s. The author states that two scenes were read at the literary events of FESTAC in Lagos, Nigeria, 1977.

Synopsis:

A group of black students in a white college prepare to fight when attacked by whites.

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J E FRANKLIN

Enemy, The

1st Produced:

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1973

Company:

Eureka Theatre Group

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

First Step to Freedom

1st Produced:

Sharon Waite Community Center, Harmony, MS

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Thesis Play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Was part of a Mississippi CORE-SNCC program designed to interest students in reading

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Four Women

1st Produced:

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1973

Company:

Eureka Theatre Group

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Fritz Was Here

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Guess What's Coming To Dinner

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Mime Show

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Hand-Me-Downs, The

1st Produced:

Theatre for Artcentric Living, New York

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

full length Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

presented at the LaMont-Zeno Theatre the same year

Synopsis:

A pre-adolescent girl and her Older brother resolve problems of sibling rivalry and the shame they feel towards their father's illiteracy and old age.

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J E FRANKLIN

In-Crowd, The

1st Produced:

Montreal Expo, Canada

1967

Company:

Mobilization for Youth (New York)

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#12416

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Genre:

Play for youngbloods One Act

Parts:

Male

8

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Prod. as a rock musical for the young by New Federal Theatre, New York, 1977.

Synopsis:

A gang of young kids decides to judge the cruelty of their parents toward them, but when they kill the parents in effigy, they realize that parents are family after all.

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J E FRANKLIN

Liars Die

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#12417

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

MacPilate

1st Produced:

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1974

Company:

Eureka Theatre Group

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#12418

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Mau-Mau Room

1st Produced:

NEC Workshop, NY

1969

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

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J E FRANKLIN

Miss Honey's Young'Uns

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in Black Drama In America, Howard University Press, 1994

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#46403

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

6

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Set on the campus of a southern university, a young undergraduate struggles with the racially-charged ideologies set in motion to determine the proper response to oppression.

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J E FRANKLIN

Precious Memories

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

The Second Decatet of Ten-Minute Plays SunRaSon Publications, 2005

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

plays Ten Min

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A collection of Ten-Minute bio-plays on African-American historical personalities who boldly confronted the political forces of their day and who left us the benefit of their wisdom in overcoming these forces

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J E FRANKLIN

Prodigal Daughter, The

1st Produced:

Lincoln Center, NY

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#46410

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

The orig. play on which her musical The Prodigal Sister (1974) was based. Prod. in New York as a street-theatre project at Lincoln Center, and on street corners in the Bronx.

Synopsis:

the problems of a young unwed mother

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J E FRANKLIN

Prodigal Sister, The

1st Produced:

Theatre De Lys, NY

1974

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

SF; Music by Fiddle-back Music Co., New York, 1975

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Musical Comedy Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

6 BM, 7 BF

Notes:

Music and lyrics by Micki Grant. Book and lyrics by J e Franklin

Synopsis:

Jackie, a young black woman in conflict with parents, becomes pregnant and leaves home for the freedom of the big city, only to return home to find love and acceptance

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J E FRANKLIN

Throw Thunder At This House

1st Produced:

Theatre for Artcentric Living

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

full length Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

4

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Presented at Skidmore Coil., Saratoga Springs, New York, 1970s.

Synopsis:

The first black undergraduate attending the University of Texas gets trapped by non-academic forces which degenerate into internecine warfare

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J E FRANKLIN

Two Flowers

1st Produced:

New Feminist Theatre, NY

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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J E FRANKLIN

Two Men'es Daughter

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in The Best American Short Plays of 1994-95, Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1995

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Short Play One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

also published in Perrine's Literature: Seventh Edition, Harcourt-Brace, 1998

Synopsis:

In a racialized world where "race" is the great divider, a feisty elder refuses to pass for white as she struggles with feelings of anger toward the white father who wronged her Black mother

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J E FRANKLIN

Where Dewdrops of Mercy Shine Bright

1st Produced:

Rites and Reason, Brown Univ., Providence, RI

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

An insensitive parent loses a second child to the world

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J E FRANKLIN

Will The Real South Please Rise

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#12421

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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