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ALICE CHILDRESS (1920 - 1974) |
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Nationality: African-American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Samuel French Inc |
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Plays by Alice Childress |
Florence | ||
| 1st Produced: | American Negro Theatre, New York | 1949 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Masses and Mainstream, Vol III (October), NYP, 1950 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6756 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Gold Through The Trees | ||
| 1st Produced: | Club Baron Theatre, New York | 1952 | ||||
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 | #6757 | |||
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Genre: | Music revue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Gullah | ||
| 1st Produced: | Amherst, Massachusetts | 1984 | ||||
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 | #6758 | |||
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Just A Little Simple | ||
| 1st Produced: | Club Baron Theatre, New York | 1950 | ||||
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 | #6759 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on the book of short stories: "Simple Speaks His Mind" by Langston Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Let's Hear It For The Queen | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Coward-McCann, New York, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6760 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Man Bearing A Pitcher, A | ||
| 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 | #6761 | |||
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Mojo | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Heritage Theatre, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6762 | |||
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Genre: | Black Love Story One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Subtitled "A Black Love Story," | |||||
Synopsis: | Paying a surprise visit to her former husband, Irene, aware that she is ill with cancer, reveals that she must shortly go back into the hospital but wanted to see Teddy just once more first. From their random conversation it is evident that a warm bond still exists between the two. They talk of the hard times they once had to endure, of how Irene set up Teddy in the numbers business, of the white girl he has become involved with and, finally, Irene confesses that she bore Teddy's child, a daughter, after their divorce-and gave the child up to another couple so that it might have a better chance in life. Sometimes brightly humorous, sometimes achingly sad, yet always unstintingly honest, the play illuminates the true character of two very real and vital people, and underscores their need to fathom and comprehend their Blackness, and to find in it a strength and dignity so long denied. | |||||
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Moms: A Praise Play For A Black Comedienne | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
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 | #6763 | |||
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Notes: | music and lyrics by Childress and Woodard | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the life of the famous comedienne Jackie "Moms" Mabley | |||||
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Sea Island Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | Charleston, S Carolina | 1977 | ||||
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 | #6764 | |||
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String | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6765 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1g | |||||
Notes: | from story by Guy de Maupassant | |||||
Synopsis: | The scene is the annual picnic of the neighborhood block association; and some of the most fastidious ladies are incensed by the presence of "old Joe," a raggedy character who subsists on other's castoffs, and is an embarrassment to all. They are joined by L. V. Craig, a boastful cafe operator who delights in taunting Joe and in flashing his bankroll before the others. In the course of the action Joe furtively retrieves a piece of string dropped by one of the ladies -and at the same time L. V. Craig finds his wallet missing. Suspicion immediately falls on Joe, who is ashamed to tell what he has hidden in his pocket. But, when he finally does, no one will believe him. Ultimately the missing wallet is found, but the truth, once known, is still not easily accepted, nor does it overcome the hurt and anguish which unfounded suspicion can engender. | |||||
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Trouble In Mind | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York | 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Barlow, Judith E. (Ed.), Plays By American Women, 1930-1960" Applause Books, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6766 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
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Wedding Band | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ann Arbor, Michigan | Dec 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6767 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | in 1918 the tragic love of a black woman and poor white man ends with his convenient death from influenza | |||||
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When The Rattlesnake Sounds | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Coward-McCann, New York, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6768 | |||
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Genre: | Childrens Youth Audience | |||||
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Wine In The Wilderness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts / West | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6769 | |||
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Genre: | Social Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | First produced on educational television in Boston as part of a special experimental series of black drama | |||||
Synopsis: | As described in the Boston Herald Traveler: "The drama was woven around a young girl, played by Abbey Lincoln, befriended by an artist looking for a model of a grass roots woman, ignorant and unattractive, for his triptych. It opens amidst Negro riots that have burned the girl out of her apartment and Abbey gets off a few cracks that hit home when the artist and his friends haul out the Afro-American bit by crying,'The Afro-Americans burnt down my home. They holler 'Whitey' but who did they burn down-me!' There were many poignant moments as the two were magnetically drawn together and pushed apart. Abbey's fear of falling in love with the artist, his desire to hold her there only long enough to paint her for his triptych, her disillusionment when she finds out, from Old Timer, one of the neighborhood's characters, that he wants a woman who's ugly and ignorant for his model. What WINE IN THE WILDERNESS captured was the turmoil the blacks feel, the pretenses they assume-like wearing straight-haired wigs-the loo | |||||
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World On A Hill, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Plays to Remember", Macmillan, New York, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #6770 | |||
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Young Martin Luther King | ||
| 1st Produced: | On tour | 1969 | ||||
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 | #6771 | |||
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