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Milburn Davis
$100,000 Nigger, The, or You Can Take the Nigger Out of the Country but...&
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| Company |
Spelman College |
Synopsis:
Jake, an extremely funny, dim-witted, superstitious black man from Alabama, inherits $100,000, and Louis, his Harlem-born slickster cousin, egged on by his girlfriend, Dianne, hires Madam Zee Zee, a phony Harlem medium, to help Louis fleece Jake out of his windfall."
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| First Produced |
1973 reading NLT, New York, 1970. NEC, NY
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| First Published |
unpublished
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| Genre |
One-Act Comedy
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female
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| Other
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4BM, 2 BF
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Notes
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(Or if original title is deemed offensive) "The $100,000 Jackass". with Willie Jones as Jake
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Milburn Davis
Black Rage in Suburbia
| | Company |
New Day Productions Company |
Synopsis:
Victor ("Vic") Jackson, Harlem ex-con and building superintendent, and his younger brother, Ted, carry out Vic's plan to rip off his girlfriend's employer, David and Esther Gelman, a wealthy lawyer and his school-teacher wife, who reside in Great Neck, L.I. The heist is born after Emily Brown, Vic's girlfriend and the Gelman's sleep-in maid, makes an innocent disclosure, overheard by Vic and Ted and Ted's new girlfriend, Mary Lou Hudson, the sleep-in maid that Emily introduced to Ted. Life on the weekends is a blast for the two couples as they party and enjoy sex in the basement apartment, visited also by Albert Barrow, a West Indian tenant newly-arrived from the Bahamas and Rose Wiley, a numbers player who lives on the fifth floor.
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| First Produced |
1985-87 Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" series Produced Atlanta, GA
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| First Published |
auth manuscript
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| Genre |
Full Length Adventure Drama
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
4 BM, 4 BFM, 1 WM, 1 WF
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Notes
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with Jamil Malek as Vic Jackson, Stinius Simuel as Ted Jackson, Barbara McCloud as Emily Brown, Ricki Lee Hagen as Mr. Gelman and Elizabeth Jarvis as Mrs. Gelman
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Milburn Davis
Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls
| | Company |
New Day Productions Company |
Synopsis:
Duke, a slithery-tongued Harlem pimp, connives to lure Betty Dawson, a pretty, but confused high school drop-out, into his stable, provoking the wrath of her single dad, Bill Dawson, who's engaged to Ruth Simmons, his next-door neighbor, who later helps her fiancé fire barbs at Duke, who, uninvited, brazenly brings his prostitutes to dinner, unaware that Bill is crafting a devious plan that doesn't prevent the wine-loving building superintendent, Mr. Green, from hanging around to sip wine and ogle the pretty girls.
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| First Produced |
1985-87 Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" series Produced Atlanta, GA
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| First Published |
auth manuscript
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| Genre |
Full Length Adventure Drama
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
3 BM, 5 BFM
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Notes
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aka Precious. with Jamil Malek as Duke, Carmen Jones as Betty Dawson and Joe Kelly as Bill Dawson
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Milburn Davis
Galivantin' Husband
| | Company |
Negro Ensemble Company |
Synopsis:
Melvin Spencer of Harlem, an unfaithful husband, invites tragedy after abandoning argumentative wife, Hattie and infant son, Little Melvin. He's partly miffed because Hattie told him that if each domestic chore carried a price tag he could not afford her services. He later meets Lillian, the crazed, gun-toting Other Woman, at the Cozy Inn bar in Harlem.
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| First Produced |
1973 N.E.C. Repertory, St. Marks Theatre, Greenwich Village, New York City
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| First Published |
unpublished
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| Genre |
Two Act Domestic Adventure
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
4 BM, 2 BF
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Notes
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with Taurean Blacque and Joyce Walker
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Milburn Davis
Love Song
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Synopsis:
Singer is interrupted by heckler (actor) who demands the vocalist sing the truth (hate) instead of love, but the singer contunues to sing love.
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| First Produced |
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
Skit for Street Theatre
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
2 BM 2 BF
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Notes
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Milburn Davis
More Power to the Grape
| | Company |
New Day Productions Company |
Synopsis:
There is humorous interaction between two black couples in New York City - Kwame Odidi-Okidi, the Greenwich Village husband, smitten with bitterness and excessive black consciousness, and housewife, Pat; Ben Thomas, the Harlem husband, a corporate manager, who wants to become a father, in spite of working wife, Cheryl's opposition.
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| First Produced |
1985 Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" pilot show Produced Atlanta, GA
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
1 Act Domestic Comedy (TV)
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
2 BM, 2 BFM
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Notes
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with Bill Nunn as Ben Thomas
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Milburn Davis
Nightmare
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Synopsis:
The courier of truth appears to a black man in his dreams and turns the brother onto Blackness and how he must relate to it in his life.
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| First Produced |
1970
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
1 Act Tragi-Fantasy
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
3 BM 3 BF extra
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Notes
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Milburn Davis
Playing the Game
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Synopsis:
Ben and Cheryl Thomas fly in from New York City to spend weekend at Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's apartment in East Point, GA. Ben and Cheryl visit Greenbriar Mall, discover Southern hospitality is more myth than fact, then return to apartment, where they socialize and focus on a medley of topics, including Cheryl's new baby, Cassandra, Kwame's disappointment with his mailroom job, the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and the obvious role that most African-Americans play in the System as low achieving jobholders satisfied with mediocre work and mediocre pay. Calling himself a "pawn in another man's game," Kwame's remark tied in with the title of the show and justified the frequent playing of the background song, "The Games People Play".
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| First Produced |
1987 Channel 12, "Love Tales Theatre" series Produced Atlanta, GA
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| First Published |
auth manuscript
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| Genre |
1 Act Domestic Comedy (TV)
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
4 BM, 4 BFM
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Notes
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with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall and Bernadette Hudson
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Milburn Davis
Precious
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| First Produced |
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
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Notes
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see Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls
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Milburn Davis
Rain Dance, The
| | Company |
New Day Productions Company/Walker Art Gallery, co-producers |
Synopsis:
Ben and Cheryl fly in from New York City to visit Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's at their digs in the Pinetree Deluxe Apartments in Atlanta, GA. The couples dance to Oran "Juice" Jones' recording of "The Rain" and alternate between being somber and serious when they savor a smorgasbord of subjects that include Chery's long-awaited pregnancy, the devastating impact of drugs, welfare, money eclipsing moral and spiritual values, female inequality in the workplace, the Odidi-Okidi's son, Akbar playing violin, and the growing rift between black men and black women.
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| First Produced |
1992 First Walker Theatre, Black Arts Festival, Produced Atlanta, GA
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| First Published |
unpublished
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| Genre |
1 Act Domestic Comedy (TV)
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
2 BM, 2 BFM, Five-year-old Female
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Notes
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with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall, James L. Scott and Rhonda Smith
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Milburn Davis
Sometimes a Switchblade Helps
| | Company |
New Lafayette Theatre |
Synopsis:
Jamil Massoud, an Afro-wearing new employee at Many Products, Corp., joins a table in the company cafeteria where Brian Greenly, a white merchandising manager and Ellen Johnson, a black secretary, are having lunch. A heated argument ensues between the blonde-wig wearing Ellen, who continually evidences a shallow and hollow mentality and Jamil, who minces no words in flaunting his racial pride. Aware that Brian is making a move on Ellen, he flips when she makes a disparaging remark about Afro hairstyles. Outraged by her self-hate and fired up by his pent-up rage, Massoud whips out a switchblade knife and sends other diners scattering before snatching Ellen's wig from her head, after which Brian flees, mouthing threats and Ellen finds herself, creating magic with an Afro pick, a metamorphosis that is both funny and delightful to observe.
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| First Produced |
1970 NLY Workshop, Harlem, New York
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| First Published |
1969 auth manuscript
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| Genre |
Farcical Comedy
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
1BM, 2 BF, 1 WM
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Notes
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with George Miles as director and Starletta DuPois as Ellen Johnson
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Milburn Davis
Sporting Times
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Synopsis:
A prostitute induces a young dude from Harlem to become her pimp, after which he goes about composing scatological ghetto rhymes in a search for joints.
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| First Produced |
1973 reading NEC Workshop, NY
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
Comedy
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| Parts |
Male
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| Female |
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| Other |
6 BM 2 BF 1 WF
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