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EUGENE B REDMOND |
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Plays by Eugene B Redmond |
9 Poets with the Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1971 | ||||
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| 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 | #29190 | |||
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Genre: | Musical/Verse Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Adaptation from the poetry of Edward Brathwaite. Aims at displaying the oral and gestural rudiments of tradition and current black expression; an act of tapping the reservoir of black musicography and mysticism | |||||
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Face of the Deep, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southern University, Baton Rouge, | 1971 | ||||
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 | #29191 | |||
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Genre: | Mythic Choral Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Adaptations of works by several black poets: Margaret Walker, Owen Dodson, Henry Dumas-and blues singers. A play-ritual about forces and mystical strengths and powers: a praise-ballet of black endurance including speculation on the origins and habitats of spirits, deities, myths | |||||
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Kwanza: A Ritual in 7 Movements | ||
| 1st Produced: | California State University, Sacra-mento | 1971 | ||||
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 | #29192 | |||
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Genre: | Choral Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 B M & F | |||||
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Synopsis: | A verse-play that extends from the concept and practice of Kwanza, an African holiday ("First Fruits") observance. The seven movements are choralized poems, one from each of the seven principles of Nguzo Saba; the setting, however, is one of African-American origin | |||||
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Night John Henry Was Born, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Southern University, Baton Rouge, La | 1972 | ||||
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 | #29193 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Choral Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 WM, chorus, musicians, drummer | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Adapta-tions of many poets' works, with choral interludes. A celebration of the great black cultural folk hero, John Henry, along with a salute to the endurance and struggles of Blacks; a poetic tapestry of black history and thought; the mythic "tablets" of Africans in America | |||||
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Ode to Taylor Jones | ||
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| 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 | #29194 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with Katherine Dunham | |||||
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River of Bones | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 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 | #29195 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Verse Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 M dancer-singer, I F dancer, 2 drummers, chorus | |||||
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Synopsis: | This adaptation from the works of black poets, but mostly the author's own works, represents a program of black ritual-istic rudiments. Centered around the drum as concept, instrument-voice, and repository of ancestral wisdom, the play relies heavily on audience participation and ideas associated with birth, death, puberty, love, age, and initiation | |||||
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Shadows before the Mirror | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1965 | ||||
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 | #29196 | |||
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There's a Wiretap in My Soup or Quit Bugging Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Miller's Park, Sacramento, Cal | 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 | #29197 | |||
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Genre: | Morality Satire One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | Satirizes the Watergate situation via a mock celebration of Independence Day. Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Sigmund Ereud, Nixon, and Franz Eannon, black psychiatrist and author, are all alluded to or mentioned. Cast: saxophone player, drummer, chorus | |||||
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Will I Still Be Here Tomorrow? | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1972 | ||||
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 | #29198 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 4 BF, drummer, chorus | |||||
Notes: | Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York, May 1975 | |||||
Synopsis: | A eulogistic meditation on the December 3, 1972, shooting of fifteen-year-old Raymond Brewer in Sacra-mento. The eulogy has been generalized to deal with global expression-the dead youth speaks from the grave about his potentialities and possibilities: "I am tomorrow, but they killed me today." | |||||
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