AMIRI BARAKA   (1934 - )


Amiri Baraka
   Nationality:
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Plays by Amiri Baraka

AMIRI BARAKA
8th Ditch, The
1st Produced:
New Bowery Theatre, NYC
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
first in "Floating Bear" then in "The System of Dante's Hell" , Grove, New York
1965
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Dante
Synopsis: Set in a US Army Camp, 1947, a valueless inhuman melee reflects the morass of inner conflict, when the self behaves with lack of good counsel.
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AMIRI BARAKA
America More Or Less
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Chin and Silko, music Greco, lyrics Weinstein
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Arm Yourself And Harm Yourself
1st Produced:
Spirit House, Newark, NJ
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jihad Productions, Newark, NJ
1967
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Genre:
Street Theatre Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
cops
Notes: aka Arm Yrself or Harm Yrself
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
At The Dim'crackr Convention
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
B.P. Chant
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Black Theatre, no 5"
1971
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Genre:
Agit Prop
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Baptism, The
1st Produced:
WPA Theatre, New York City
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Best Plays of 1963-64" Dodd, Mead
1964
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Genre:
Ritual Morality Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
chorus of women
Notes: -
Synopsis: The black church is shown as a hypocritical institution, in which a homosexual is the only person capable of acknowledging his perversion.
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AMIRI BARAKA
BA-RA-KA
1st Produced:
-
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Spontaneous Combustion" Winter House
1972
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Resurrection Of Life
Synopsis: Genesis of playwright and of his black race
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AMIRI BARAKA
Black Mass, A
1st Produced:
Proctors Theatre, Newark, NJ
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Black Revolutionary Plays" Bobbs-Merrill
1969
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
1 BFast
Notes: -
Synopsis: An evil white beast is accidentally created by a black magician.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Black Power Chant
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Black Theatre, no 4"
1971
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Bloodrites
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Black Drama" Signet, New York
1971
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
10-14 mixed cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: Subjugation by the white devils is overcome by blacks as they retain their physical and cultural diversity.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Board Of Education
1st Produced:
Spirit House, Newark, NJ
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Boy And Tarzan Appear In A Clearing
1st Produced:
New York
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Present day African leaders as corrupt and greedy having learned from white colonists.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean
1st Produced:
Spirit House, Newark, NJ
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Mime Play
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: background of slide projections
Synopsis: Effort to free black minds from the evils of Euro-Americanism and to build a Black solidarity
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AMIRI BARAKA
Coronation Of The Black Queen, The
1st Produced:
-
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Black Scholar, 1, 8
1970
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Genre:
Ritual
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A piece modelled after African ceremonies
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AMIRI BARAKA
Dante
1st Produced:
New York
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
first in "Floating Bear" then in "The System of Dante's Hell" , Grove, New York
1965
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka The Eight Ditch
Synopsis: Set in a US Army Camp, 1947, a valueless inhuman melee reflects the morass of inner conflict, when the self behaves with lack of good counsel.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Death Of Malcom X
1st Produced:
Spirit House, Newark, NJ
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "New Plays from the Black Theatre" Bantam, Ny
1969
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Genre:
Historical Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
21-26 mixed cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: The murder of Malcolm X by white conspirators is explored.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Dutchman
1st Produced:
Playwrights Unit, NYC
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
(with The Slave) Morrow, New York
1964
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set inside an underground train violent verbal confrontation evolves between white woman and black bourgeois intellectual who she eventually stabs.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Election Machine Warehouse, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Simon & Schuster, NY
1997
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Experimental Death Unit #1
1st Produced:
St. Marks Playhouse, NYC
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
first in "East Side Review" then in "Four Black Revolutionary Plays" Bobbs-Merrill
1969
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The penalty for two white men caught with a black prostitute is death at the hand of two black soldiers
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AMIRI BARAKA
General Hag's Skeezag
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Black Thunder New York. New York, Mentor
1992
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Good Girl Is Hard To Find, A
1st Produced:
Montclair, New Jersey
1958
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Possibly produced at Sterlington House, Bloomfield, New Jersey (advertised in Yugen)
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Great Goodness Of Life: A Coon Show
1st Produced:
Tambellinis Gate, NYC
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Black Revolutionary Plays" Bobbs-Merrill
1969
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
8
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Black father's attempts to redeem himself for allegedly contributing to his son's death.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Home On The Range
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ, NYC
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Drama Review, 12, 4 (summer), NY
1968
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Genre:
Absurd Comedy
One Act
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: A collage of satire on white America that ends with the blacks surviving the apocalypse
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AMIRI BARAKA
Insurrection
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
J-E-L-L-O
1st Produced:
Black Arts Group, NYC
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Third World Press, Chicago
1970
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Genre:
Comedy Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Celebrates the birth of the Black Race
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AMIRI BARAKA
Junkies Are Full Of (SHHH. . .)
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Black Drama" Signet, New York
1971
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
12
Female
1
Parts Other:
extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Black nationalists kill white drug pushers and overdose their black informer in example to the rest of the community.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Madheart: A Morality Play
1st Produced:
San Francisco, CA
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Black Fire", Morrow, New York
1968
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Genre:
Play
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Black man and four women renounce their patterns of life which have been conducted under white mores.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Money: A Jazz Opera
1st Produced:
New York
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with George Gruntz
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Motion Of History, The
1st Produced:
New York Theatre Ensemble, NYC
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Motion of History and other Plays", Morrow, New York
1978
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Genre:
Epic
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: Epic portrayal of racial conflict and social injustice throughout American history
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AMIRI BARAKA
New Ark's A Moverin
1st Produced:
Newark
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Police
1st Produced:
NYC
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Drama Review, 12, 4
1968
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras, cops
Notes: -
Synopsis: Black community wants an end to the black-and-white, police-killing-black-people cycle.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Primitive World
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by David Murray
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Recent Killing, A
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
3 Act
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
17
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: About evolution and the development of airman Pearson from poet to activist.
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AMIRI BARAKA
Revolt Of The Moonflowers
1st Produced:
-
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Non extant
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
Rockgroup
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Cricket, December
1969
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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AMIRI BARAKA
S-1
1st Produced:
Afro-American Studio, NYC
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Motion of History and other Plays", Morrow, New York
1978
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Genre:
Didactic drama
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: -
Synopsis: A constitutional amendment to restrict civil rights unites various left-wing groups in their opposition
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AMIRI BARAKA
Sidnee Poet Heroical, The
1st Produced:
New York
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Reed, New York
1979
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Genre:
Satirical comedy
Satire
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
Large Cast
Notes: includes film clips, speaking chorus and music. aka If In Danger Of Suit, The Kid Poet Heroical
Synopsis: Black nationalist play based on the life and times of the actor Sidney Poitier
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AMIRI BARAKA
Slave Ship
1st Produced:
Newark, NJ, NYC
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Jihad Productions, Newark, NJ
1967
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Genre:
Historical Pageant
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras, dancers, musicians
Notes: -
Synopsis: Dramatic pageant on the horrors of slavery.
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