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WARREN BURDINE II |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
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Plays by Warren Burdine II |
aka Deadwood Dick | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dillard University, New Orleans | Dec 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 | #5310 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15-20 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | musicians | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This Afro-Western odyssey with music is a passage-to-manhood rite that seceral tribes in West Africa practice. it has been americanised and set in the mythical west. The protagonist, nat "Deadwood Dick" Love, makes a symbolic journey in search of his manhhod. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Down Thru The Chimney | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | c. 1970 | ||||
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 | #5311 | |||
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Genre: | Fantasy one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM (1 in whiteface) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Fantasy about what would happen if two blck cops arrested Santa Claus for breaking and entering. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jake Jackson's Revolution | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1974 | ||||
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 | #5312 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9BM, 4 BF, 2 WM, 1 WF extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An adaptation of Richard Wright's novel, Lawd Today, set in Chicago in 1937. A day in the life of a young black postal worker and a look at the social and emotional factors that keep him running on a never-ending treadmill of apathy and the possibility of his redemption | |||||
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Jitterbug Champagne | ||
| 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 | #5313 | |||
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Genre: | 1 act tragi comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BM, 2 WM, 1 WF, 1 Afro-Latin | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a small drugstore-restaurant general store in rural east Tennessee in the summer of 1967. Deals with ignorance and naivete of people with preconceived notions about others and the games and rituals blacks must act out to survive | |||||
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Night Class at Harlem U, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Humanist Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio | Jun 1974 | ||||
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 | #5314 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 8 BM, 6 BF, 1 BB, 1 WM | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The hopes, frustrations, and fears of sundry characters in inner city communities | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Snowbound | ||
| 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 | #5315 | |||
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: | 3 act historical drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 2 BF, 1 WM, 1 WF, offstage voice | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the 1800s. A group of Blacks who have plotted to revolt against their masters are trapped by a blizzard in a plantation house | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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