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Joseph A Walker
Antigone Africanus
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| First Produced |
1975 New York
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| First Published |
Unpublished
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Male
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Joseph A Walker
Believers, The
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Synopsis:
Action takes place in the "Gone Years" and the "Then and Now Years." Subtitled: The Black Experience in Song.
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| First Produced |
1968 Garrick Theatre, New York
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| First Published |
Best Plays of 1967-68, ed. by Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., New York: Dodd
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| Genre |
Musical
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Male
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7 BM, 6 BF
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written by Joseph A Walker and Josephine Jackson, Music and lyrics by Benjamin Carter and Others
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Joseph A Walker
District Line
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| First Produced |
1984 New York
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| First Published |
Unpublished
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Male
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Joseph A Walker
Harangues, The
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Synopsis:
Action takes place on Avenue B on New York's Lower East Side. The last of four plays in a production called The Harangues
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| First Produced |
1970 NEC, New York
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| First Published |
1971 in "The Best Short Plays 1971", Chilton, Philadelphia
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| Genre |
1 Act Drama
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Male
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4 BM, 1 BF
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aka Tribal Harangue Two
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Joseph A Walker
King Buddy Bolden
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| First Produced |
1996
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| Genre |
Play
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Male
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Joseph A Walker
Lion Is a Soul Brother, The
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Synopsis:
Set in an African village, a medicine man tells the story of a lion who talked and was a friend to man
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| First Produced |
1976 Demi-Gods, New York
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| First Published |
Unpublished
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| Genre |
Jazz-Rock Musical
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Male
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Music by Dorothy Dinroe
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Joseph A Walker
Ododo
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Synopsis:
A conjurer conjures up the spirits of the orig-inal black people and traces the black man's history from his beginnings in Africa to the present
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| First Produced |
1970 NEC, New York
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| First Published |
1972 in Black Drama Anthology, ed. by Woodie King, Jr. and Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib.
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| Genre |
Historical Ritual
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Male
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| Other |
11 B M & F
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Joseph A Walker
Out of the Ashes
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Synopsis:
In two parts (the Legacy and the Vow). An en-semble piece that mixes old minstrel and modern scenes with actors that metamorphose from role to role until central character, Joe, can save his pop from death and alcohol. Subtitled: A Minstrel Show
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| First Produced |
1974
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| Genre |
Satire
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Male
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Joseph A Walker
River Niger, The
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Synopsis:
A son returns home to his father, not quite the hero the father anticipated nor the staunch militant his former buddies once knew. The father becomes the hero
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| First Produced |
1972 NEC, New York
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| First Published |
1973 Hill and Wang, New York
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| Genre |
Domestic Melodrama
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Male
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9 BM, 4 BF
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Joseph A Walker
Theme of the Black Struggle
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| First Produced |
1970 NEC, New York
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Male
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Joseph A Walker
Tribal Harangue One
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Synopsis:
The action takes place in an African dungeon on the coast of West Africa in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues
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| First Produced |
1970 NEC, New York
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
1 Act Historical Mythic
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Male
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| Other |
1 BM, 1 BF
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Joseph A Walker
Tribal Harangue Three
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Synopsis:
Action takes place in the future. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues
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| First Produced |
1970 NEC, New York
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| First Published |
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| Genre |
1 Act Mythic
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Male
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1 BM, 1 BF
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Joseph A Walker
Tribal Harangue Two
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Synopsis:
A black revolutionary's plot to kill the rich white stepfather of his lover is foiled by the white man's control of money. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues
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| First Produced |
1969
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| First Published |
1971 The Best Short Plays, 1971, ed. by Stanley Rich-ards, New York: Chilton
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| Genre |
1 Act Drama
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
5 BM, 1 WM, 1 WF
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Joseph A Walker
Yin Yang
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Synopsis:
. A potpourri of black thought forms, projected through poetry, drama, dance, and music
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| First Produced |
1972 Afro-American Studio, New York
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| First Published |
Unpublished
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| Genre |
Ritual
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| Parts |
Male
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| Other |
3 BM, 6 BF
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Music by Dorothy D. Walker
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