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ED BULLINS   (1935 - )


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Plays by Ed Bullins

ED BULLINS
American Flag Ritual, The
1st Produced:
-
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Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
Protest Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
1BM
Notes: -
Synopsis: A black man makes a solemn ritual of pissing on the American flag
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ED BULLINS
American Griot
1st Produced:
New York
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Black Caesar
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
Our Place Theatre Project, Inc.
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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ED BULLINS
Black Commercial #2
1st Produced:
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-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
1 ActTV Didactic Sketch
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
2 BM, extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: Two fighting black men become black brothers
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ED BULLINS
Bullins Does Bullins
1st Produced:
Oakland, California
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Clara's Ole Man
1st Produced:
San Francisco
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis
1969
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Dominance of gross black woman over pretty friend illustrates today's dishonest and hedonistic viewpoint.
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ED BULLINS
C'mon Back To Heavenly House
1st Produced:
Amherst, Massachusetts
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Corner, The
1st Produced:
Theatre Company of boston, Boston, MA
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
5bm, 1bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: Problems for black man wishing to settle down with woman bearing his child in a succession of streetcorner scenes.
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ED BULLINS
Daddy
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
-
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Genre:
Domestic Drama
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
5bm, 5bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: This is the sixth play in a twenty play cycle about Blacks in contemporary American life. A father returns to the family he had abandoned and attempts to make amends for his neglect
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ED BULLINS
Death List
1st Produced:
Theatre Black, University of the Streets, NYC
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York
1971
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Genre:
Didactic Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
1bm, 1bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: Black revolutionary cannot be dissuaded by his wife from reading real names of black petitioners in favour of Israel whom he wishes to kill.
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ED BULLINS
Devil Catchers, The
1st Produced:
New York
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Dialect Determinism (or The Rally): Theme Is Blackness
1st Produced:
San Francisco Drama Circle, Firehouse Repertory Theatre, San Francisco, CA
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
Satire
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
7bm, 4bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: At a rally of Harlem blacks strong feelings emerge against both whites and black opportunist leaders
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ED BULLINS
Doorway, The
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
Company One
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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ED BULLINS
Do-Wah
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: set in the 60's
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ED BULLINS
Duplex, The: A Black Love Fable In Four Movements
1st Produced:
New Lafayette Theatre, NYC
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Morrow, New York
1971
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
7bm, 5bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: Corruption of white values upon black culture in the getto slum houses. Set during the early sixties in a duplex in southern California, this play tells the story of Velma Best's search for completeness, for a love that transcends sex
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ED BULLINS
Eight-Minute Marathon
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
Centastage Performance Group
1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays
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Genre:
play
Ten Min
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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ED BULLINS
Electronic Nigger, The
1st Produced:
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis
1969
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Genre:
Satire
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
2bm, 1bf, 1wm, 2wf, extras
Notes: -
Synopsis: The collective recognition of black artists and intellectuals of the 1960's versus the white literary establishment.
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ED BULLINS
Fabulous Miss Marie, The
1st Produced:
New Lafayette Theatre, NYC
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The New Lafayette Theatre Presents", Doubleday, New York
1974
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Genre:
Ritual Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
6bm, 4bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: The various dilemmas and confusions of the so-called black middle class
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ED BULLINS
Game Of Adam And Eve, The
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Shirley Tarbell
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Gentleman Caller, The
1st Produced:
Chelsea Theater, Brooklyn, NY
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "A Black Quartet", New American Library, New York
1970
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Genre:
Diadactic Melodarama
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
2bm, 2bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: In an allegory for white American society a young black maid kills her white employer.
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ED BULLINS
Goin' A Buffalo
1st Produced:
Rehearsed reading, American Place Theatre, NYC
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis
1969
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Genre:
Tragifantasy
Tragedy
Parts:
Male
9
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: An examination of the lifestyles of Los Angeles junkies, musicians and prostitutes.
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ED BULLINS
Helper, The
1st Produced:
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
Protest Satire
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
1bm, 2wm, 2wf
Notes: -
Synopsis: A white family engages the aid of a black man and then demonstrates their ignorance in various ways
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ED BULLINS
Home Boy
1st Produced:
Perry Street Theater, NYC
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
4bm, 5bf
Notes: music Aaron Bell, lyrics Bullins
Synopsis: Two southern black men plan to emigrate to the North. One does, but both are victims, survivors, and casualties of the America of the 1950s and 1960s
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ED BULLINS
House Party
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
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-
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Genre:
Soul Happening
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Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Pat Patrick, lyrics by Bullins
Synopsis: A spectacular cowboys-and-Indians melodrama updated though a role-reversal in favour of the Indians Elizabeth Hardwick
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ED BULLINS
How Do You Do?
1st Produced:
San Francisco Drama Circle, San Francisco, CA
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Illuminations Press, Mill Valley, California
1965
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Genre:
Nonsense Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
2bm, 1bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: Poses image of false black stereotypes as seen through white eyes.
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ED BULLINS
I Am Lucy Terry
1st Produced:
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
1bm, 1bf, 1wm, 1wf, 1 Indian
Notes: Commissioned by the N.Y. State Council on the Arts
Synopsis: This play for young Americans concerns Lucy Terry, a young slave poet illegally educated by her mistress, who tails in love and marries Abijah Prince, a free black man
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ED BULLINS
I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine
1st Produced:
New York
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
In New England Winter
1st Produced:
Henry St. Playhouse, NYC
1967 (1971?)
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "New Plays from the Black Theatre", Bantam, New York
1969
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Genre:
Domestic Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
6bm, 2bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: The problems two brothers face as the elder tries to recapture his wife. A continuation of the life of Cliff Dawson, one of the characters from In the Wine Time, by the same playwright
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ED BULLINS
In The Wine Time
1st Produced:
New Lafayette, NYC
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis
1969
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
7bm, 7bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: Sex, drink and dreams provide an escape from the sordid reality of Philadelphia slums.
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ED BULLINS
It Bees Dat Way
1st Produced:
Ambiance Lunch-Hour Theatre, London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York
1971
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Genre:
Ritual
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
4bm, 2bf
Notes: -
Synopsis: The whites in the audience are abused and ridiculed by six Harlem blacks. Street people interacting with liberal-minded whites and the former's realization of what must be done about the genocidal plot of the white establishment
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ED BULLINS
It Has No Choice
1st Produced:
Black Arts West Repertory Theatre School, San Francisco, CA
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York
1973
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Jo Anne!!!
1st Produced:
Riverside Church Theatre, NYC
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
auth manuscript
-
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Genre:
Drama/Satire
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
-
Parts Other:
5bm, 5bf, 5wm, 2wf
Notes: -
Synopsis: An examination of the Jo Anne Little rape/murder case in a North Carolina prison
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ED BULLINS
Leavings
1st Produced:
New York
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis:
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ED BULLINS
Malcolm '71, or Publishing Blackness
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
The Black Scholar, vol. 6, no. 9, June
1975
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