JIMMY GARRETT (1944? - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Jimmy Garrett
(And) We Own the Night |
| 1st Produced: | Spirit House Movers and Players, Newark, NJ | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Black Fire (Jones & Neal, 1968 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | agitprop melodrama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Subtitled "A Play of Blackness." | |||||
| Synopsis: | Takes its title from a poem by Amiri Baraka, which also serves as an epigraph to the play. A romanticized view of the black revolution, in which a young black militant, dying from wounds that he has received in a race war, kills his own mother-portrayed as a symbol of the black matriarch and the "White man's nigger"- in order to assert his black manhood and his belief in a new value system for blacks which must be brought about by any means necessary, even the destruction of one's own family | |||||
