GEORGE BOYD
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by George Boyd
Consecrated Ground |
| 1st Produced: | Eastern Front Theatre | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: nominated for the Governors-General Award for drama in 2000 | ||||
Synopsis: In 1965, Africville, the largest and oldest black community in Canada was bulldozed into memory. What was lost to the politicians of Halifax was an inconvenience, an eysore. What was lost to the people whose roots ran deep through the once-vibrant community was an entire way of life. Withtremendous wit and gravity, George Boyd resurrects Africville on the verge of extinction, making us a gift of people believable in their vulnerabilities, their courage and their outrage | ||||
Gideon's Blues |
| 1st Produced: | UpStart Theatre | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | 1996 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: An examination of racism and drugs in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as drugs, as a young, black college graduate is lured into trafficking cocaine. Gideon's Blues is a microcosm of the impact of crack-cocaine on the black community and the desperate acts to which some people had to resort. | ||||
Wade In The Water |
| 1st Produced: | Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | 2004 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: finalist for the 2004 Montreal English Critic's Circle Award (Mecca). | ||||
Synopsis: Nelson Williams Johns is an elderly slave in search of his roots, on an uplifting journey that begins in Civil War-era Georgia and leads to Sierra Leone. Nelson is forced to choose between a perilous freedom and the safety of the known on his quest for increased personal and social consciousness. Filled with lyrical dialogue and nuanced characters, Wade in the Water is a poignant story that celebrates the beauty of the human spirit | ||||