ARCHIE SHEPP
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Plays by Archie Shepp
Junebug Graduates Tonight |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Theatre Center, New York | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Drama Anthology, ed. by Woodie King, Jr. and Ron Mimer, New York: New Amer. Lib, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, 4 BF, 2 WM, 1 WF | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A musical model in structure, com-plete with band, chorus, and scenic transitions that focus the message of a black youth's disillusionment in the blues changes of sharps or flats, the entire matrix giving expression to the kind of harsh lyricism of an oppressed reality of a young black man in America | |||||
Revolution |
| 1st Produced: | Brooklyn College, New York | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Ritual | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, 1 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black man and woman through all metamorphoses of roles still find themselves up against an inhuman racist system | |||||
Skulls |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | Ritual/Farce with Music | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 BM, 3 BF, 1 WM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | In 'De Vali" of the jungle of central Har-lem, the white father missionary is slain by his former black mistress and the junkie slaves are thereby set free | |||||