BILL GUNN   (1930 - 1989)


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Plays by Bill Gunn

BILL GUNN
Black Picture Show
1st Produced:
Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York
1975
Company:
New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF) and Joseph Papp
1st Published:
Reed, Cannon & Johnson, Berkeley, CA, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
2 acts
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
3 BM ,2 BF, 3 WM, 1 WF
Notes:
book by Bill Gunn; music and lyrics by Sam Waymon
Synopsis:
The destruction of a black artist who realizes too late that art in white America is just another form of politics
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BILL GUNN
Family Employment
1st Produced:
NYSF Public Theatre
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
domestic drama
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The story of an upwardly mobile black middle-class family whose wealth and power have come mainly from exploitation of the black community through gambling
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BILL GUNN
Forbidden City, The
1st Produced:
-
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a dysfunctional black family disintegrates
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BILL GUNN
Johannas
1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre Center, New York
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Drama Review, vol. 12, no.4, Summer 1968,
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Tragedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
1 BM, 1 BF, 1 BB, 2 BG, 2 WM
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Deals with the problems of a talented young black boy who attempts to come of age in racist America and finally must commit suicide as the ultimate form of protest
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BILL GUNN
Marcus In The High Grass
1st Produced:
Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York
1960
Company:
Theatre Guild
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
full length
Melodrama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
2c
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A youngster, born out of wedlock, searches for his father, not knowing that his uncle" is really his father
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BILL GUNN
Rhinestone
1st Produced:
New York
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
3 acts
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Adapt. by Gunn from his novel Rhinestone Sharecropping (1982). Music and lyrics by Sam Waymon
Synopsis:
Explores the director-writer relationship between a racially insensitive European producer and a sensitive black screenwriter who has been assigned to do a screenplay of a film about a famous black football hero
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