ED BULLINS (1935 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Ed Bullins
American Flag Ritual, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | |||||
American Griot |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Black Caesar |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | Our Place Theatre Project, Inc. | |||||
| 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: | play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Black Commercial #2 |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | |||||
Boy X Man |
| 1st Produced: | Black Box Theatre, Boston | 1996 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | 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 | |||||
Bullins Does Bullins |
| 1st Produced: | Oakland, California | 1988 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
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Clara's Ole Man |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Dominance of gross black woman over pretty friend illustrates today's dishonest and hedonistic viewpoint. | |||||
C'mon Back To Heavenly House |
| 1st Produced: | Amherst, Massachusetts | 1978 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Corner, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Company of boston, Boston, MA | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | 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: | - | 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. | |||||
Daddy |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
| 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: | 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 | |||||
Death List |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Black, University of the Streets, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | 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: | 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. | |||||
Devil Catchers, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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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: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | 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: | 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 | |||||
Doorway, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Company One | |||||
| 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: | play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Do-Wah |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in the 60's | |||||
Duplex, The: A Black Love Fable In Four Movements |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | |||||
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 | - | |||
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| Genre: | play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Electronic Nigger, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | 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: | 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. | |||||
Fabulous Miss Marie, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The New Lafayette Theatre Presents", Doubleday, New York, 1974 | 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 Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6bm, 4bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The various dilemmas and confusions of the so-called black middle class | |||||
Game Of Adam And Eve, The |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1966 | ||||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Shirley Tarbell | |||||
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Gentleman Caller, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Theater, Brooklyn, NY | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "A Black Quartet", New American Library, New York, 1970 | 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: | 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. | |||||
Goin' A Buffalo |
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading, American Place Theatre, NYC | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | 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: | Tragifantasy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | An examination of the lifestyles of Los Angeles junkies, musicians and prostitutes. | |||||
Harlem Diva |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Ed Bullins Twelve Plays and Selected Writings" published by University of Michigan Press (2006) | ISBN | 9780472031825 | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hellzapoppin |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1976 | ||||
| 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: | - | 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: | - | |||||
Helper, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | 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: | 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 | |||||
Home Boy |
| 1st Produced: | Perry Street Theater, NYC | 1976 | ||||
| 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: | - | 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 | |||||
House Party |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| 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: | 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 | |||||
How Do You Do? |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco Drama Circle, San Francisco, CA | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Illuminations Press, Mill Valley, California, 1965 | 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: | Nonsense Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2bm, 1bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Poses image of false black stereotypes as seen through white eyes. | |||||
I Am Lucy Terry |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| 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: | 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 | |||||
I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones | |||||
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In New England Winter |
| 1st Produced: | Henry St. Playhouse, NYC | 1967 (1971?) | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "New Plays from the Black Theatre", Bantam, New York, 1969 | 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: | 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 | |||||
In The Wine Time |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette, NYC | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | 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: | - | 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. | |||||
It Bees Dat Way |
| 1st Produced: | Ambiance Lunch-Hour Theatre, London | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | 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 | |||