ED BULLINS (1935 - )
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Plays by Ed Bullins
American Flag Ritual, The |
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| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Protest Ritual | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black man makes a solemn ritual of pissing on the American flag | |||||
American Griot |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
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Black Caesar |
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
| Company: | Our Place Theatre Project, Inc. | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Black Commercial #2 |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | 1 ActTV Didactic Sketch | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Two fighting black men become black brothers | |||||
Boy X Man |
| 1st Produced: | Black Box Theatre, Boston | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Ernie arranges the funeral for his mother. She considered herself as the "New Negro Woman" and hoped that Ernie would be a leader of men | |||||
Bullins Does Bullins |
| 1st Produced: | Oakland, California | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
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Clara's Ole Man |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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. | |||||
C'mon Back To Heavenly House |
| 1st Produced: | Amherst, Massachusetts | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
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Corner, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Company of boston, Boston, MA | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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. | |||||
Daddy |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Domestic Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
Death List |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Black, University of the Streets, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Didactic Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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. | |||||
Devil Catchers, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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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 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 7bm, 4bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | At a rally of Harlem blacks strong feelings emerge against both whites and black opportunist leaders | |||||
Doorway, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
| Company: | Company One | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Do-Wah |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | set in the 60's | |||||
Duplex, The: A Black Love Fable In Four Movements |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
Eight-Minute Marathon |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | |||||
| Company: | Centastage Performance Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume I, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | play | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Electronic Nigger, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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. | |||||
Fabulous Miss Marie, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theatre, NYC | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The New Lafayette Theatre Presents", Doubleday, New York, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Ritual Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 6bm, 4bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The various dilemmas and confusions of the so-called black middle class | |||||
Game Of Adam And Eve, The |
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Shirley Tarbell | |||||
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Gentleman Caller, The |
| 1st Produced: | Chelsea Theater, Brooklyn, NY | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "A Black Quartet", New American Library, New York, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Diadactic Melodarama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2bm, 2bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | In an allegory for white American society a young black maid kills her white employer. | |||||
Goin' A Buffalo |
| 1st Produced: | Rehearsed reading, American Place Theatre, NYC | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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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. | |||||
Harlem Diva |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Ed Bullins Twelve Plays and Selected Writings" published by University of Michigan Press (2006) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0472031825 | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Hellzapoppin |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by Abe Burrows. Music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bill Heyer and Carolyn Leigh; book by Ed Bullins, Bill Heyer and Hank Beebe | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Helper, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Protest Satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
Home Boy |
| 1st Produced: | Perry Street Theater, NYC | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
House Party |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Soul Happening | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
How Do You Do? |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco Drama Circle, San Francisco, CA | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Illuminations Press, Mill Valley, California, 1965 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Nonsense Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2bm, 1bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Poses image of false black stereotypes as seen through white eyes. | |||||
I Am Lucy Terry |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones | |||||
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In New England Winter |
| 1st Produced: | Henry St. Playhouse, NYC | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "New Plays from the Black Theatre", Bantam, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Domestic Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
In The Wine Time |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette, NYC | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 7bm, 7bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sex, drink and dreams provide an escape from the sordid reality of Philadelphia slums. | |||||
It Bees Dat Way |
| 1st Produced: | Ambiance Lunch-Hour Theatre, London | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Ritual | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| 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 | |||||
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 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Jo Anne!!! |
| 1st Produced: | Riverside Church Theatre, NYC | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Drama/Satire | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 5bm, 5bf, 5wm, 2wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | An examination of the Jo Anne Little rape/murder case in a North Carolina prison | |||||
Leavings |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Malcolm '71, or Publishing Blackness |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Black Scholar, vol. 6, no. 9, June, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm, 1wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Mr. Blackman, a black writer and revolutionary, receives an inquiry about publishing from a white girl whose dog is named Malcolm | |||||
Man Who Dug Fish, The |
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Absurd Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm, 3wm | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black man buys a large fish and a shovel and places them in a deposit box at the bank for ten years-an absurd action taken in an absurd white world | |||||
Michael |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Minor Scene, A |
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts West Repertory Theatre School, San Francisco, CA | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm, 1wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black man picks up a white woman; their interactions are the focus of this play | |||||
Mystery Of Phillis (sic)Wheatley, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Historical Children's Musical | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2bm, 1bf, 2wm, 2wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A struggle of black and white forces for the soul of the famous poet as she rises to inter-national fame | |||||
Next Time |
| 1st Produced: | Bronx Community College, NY | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | : Spirit, the Magazine of Black Culture, vol. I, no, 1, Spring, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Protest Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm, 1wm, 1bb | |||||
| Notes: | in City Stops | |||||
| Synopsis: | The incident is based on the shooting of the black poet, Henry Dumas, by a white policeman | |||||
Night Of The Beast |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 3bm, 2bf | |||||
| Notes: | extras | |||||
| Synopsis: | Revolutionary group combats the forces of police brutality as it attempts to govern its own community | |||||
Nubian Coronation Prologue, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | Boston Playwrights’ Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 2, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
One for the Road |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Our Place Theatre Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
One-Minute Commercial |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | For Black Community Broadcasting | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Pig Pen, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Four Dynamite Plays", Morrow, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 7bm, 1bf, 2wm, 1wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The news of Malcolm X's murder causes friction. Pot smokers, wine drinkers, and a need for white sex partners make up a group of pseudo Blacks who think they have it all together, but don't | |||||
Play Of The Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Media happening | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Invites audience participation | |||||
Psychic Pretenders, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Raining Down Stars: Sepia Stories of The Dark Diaspora |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Rally, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Ritual To Raise The Dead And Foretell The Future, A |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Best Short Plays of 1990", Applause, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by Ed Bullins and Marvin X | |||||
| Synopsis: | Depicts the aftermath of the Black revolution through the eyes of a "down- and-out" ex-Panther Huey P. Newton | |||||
Sepia Star, Or Chocolate Comes To The Cotton Club |
| 1st Produced: | Stage 73, NYC | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music and lyrics Mildred Kayden. Lib Ed Bullins | |||||
| Synopsis: | About a rhythm and blues singer | |||||
Short Bullins |
| 1st Produced: | 03 Mar 1972 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Short Play For A Small Theatre |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Ritual | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black man applies ritual makeup and then shoots each white person in the audience, one by one | |||||
Son, Come Home, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1968 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Five Plays", Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Domestic Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 2bm, 2bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Impoverished and superstitious mother is visited by black poet son whom she hasn't seen for years. | |||||
Spaces |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | Our Place Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
State Office Building Curse |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A "planned" happening of the opening and closing of the State Office Building in Harlem, a building built, despite community objections, in Harlem by then governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller | |||||
Steve And Velma |
| 1st Produced: | Boston | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Storyville |
| 1st Produced: | Mandeville Theatre, University of California, La Jolla | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | Musical Comedy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 2 child and chorus | |||||
| Notes: | music and lyrics Mildred Kayden. Lib Ed Bullins | |||||
| Synopsis: | A musical set in New Orleans, 1917, a story of love and jazz music. It follows how a notorious prize fight sent the musicians, bands and entertainers "rollin' up the river" to St. Louis, Chicago and gave America's gift to the world - JAZZ! | |||||
Street Party, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Short Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | title "A Street Play" ?? | |||||
| Synopsis: | A suggested dialogue about political-racial events that invites improvisation | |||||
Street Sounds |
| 1st Produced: | 14 Oct 1970 | |||||
| Company: | LaMama GPA Nucleus Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 12bm, 5bf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Sundry voices of the black population of inner cities | |||||
Taking Of Miss Janie, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Famous Plays of the 70's", Dell, New York, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | Satirical drama | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 3bm, 2bf, 2wm, 2wf | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | This play is the sequel to Bullins' The Pig Pen. A tale about the spirit of the sixties, told in a story of a rape—a friendly rape, but a rape nonetheless. Janie is a white student at City College who meets Monty, a Black at a Creative Writing course. He’s determined to have her, even if he has to wait 10 years. Their story is both tragic and revealing | |||||
Ten-Minute Play, A |
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
| Company: | New African Co. | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 3, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
That’ Day |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
| Company: | New African Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays, | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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 | Ten Min | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Theme Is Blackness, The |
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts West, San Francisco, CA | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Theme Is Blackness", Morrow, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | To be performed before predominantly white audiences. The house and stage lights are turned off for twenty minutes | |||||
To Raise The Dead And Foretell The Future |
| 1st Produced: | New Lafayette Theater, New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Ed Bullins Twelve Plays and Selected Writings" published by University of Michigan Press (2006) | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0472031825 | |||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
We Righteous Bombers |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Albert Camus; as Kingsley B Bass Jr | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
You Gonna Let Me Take You Out Tonight, Baby |
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts / West | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Arts, ed. by Ahmad Alhamisi and Harum Wangara, Detroit: Black Arts Pub. Co, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| 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: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1bm | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Black man tries to hustle one of his girl friend's friends | |||||