EISA DAVIS
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Plays by Eisa Davis
Angela's Mixtape |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Eisa's aunt is the activist Angela Davis and the play explores someone growing up in a family with a internationally famous person | ||||
Bulrusher |
| 1st Produced: | Urban Stages, NY | 2006 | ||
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| 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 | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: In 1955 Boonville, California, a multi-racial abandoned baby girl (Bulrusher) is found floating in a basket on the river. Growing up in an isolated predominately white town with its own homespun language, Bulrusher only questions her origins and investigates her identity when prompted by the arrival of a stranger. In a town where the unusual is normal (a brothel run by an aloof madam, a school run by a silent teacher), Bulrusher is still an outcast due to her painfully accurate clairvoyance | ||||
Bulrusher |
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| 1st Published: | Contained in "New Playwrights - The Best Plays of 2006" published by Smith and Kraus | 2007 | ||
| 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 | |||
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Hip Hop Anasi |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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: | 6 actors | |||
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Synopsis: Anasi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award and will do anything to get it. | ||||
History of Light, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A young black woman who grew up not knowing her father is visited by his white girlfriend which puts her relationship with a white man into perspective. | ||||
Paper Armor |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston began collaborating on a play but it destroyed their relationship. A young man hopes their now 97 year old stenographer can shed dome light on the matter. | ||||
Point of Revue |
| 1st Produced: | Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States) | 2006 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playscrips, Inc - 1072 | 2006 | ||
| 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: | Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 6 females, 6 males, 3 either; Running time: 90-115 mins | |||
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Synopsis: A composite shot of African America. . . with attitude. Through a riveting series of short plays and songs, this vaudeville defies stereotype as it explores a myriad of topics and places, from Northern Uganda to the American South, HIV to Condoleeza Rice. S | ||||
Six Minutes |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2004 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The relationship between two black critics becomes dangerous as they start taking everything literarily. | ||||
Umkovu |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2001 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: A rapper has signed for a record label that boosts its sales by murdering its artists. | ||||
Warriors Don't Cry |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2007 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: In 1957 Melba Pattillo Beals apllied to go to an all white college. | ||||