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2003

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Drama

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Eisa's aunt is the activist Angela Davis and the play explores someone growing up in a family with a internationally famous person. Using the rhythms of music and memory, in Angela's Mixtape Eisa Davis tells the story of a radical upbringing on the dividing line between Oakland and Berkeley, California—in a family that includes her aunt, professor and activist Angela Davis. Time shifts between the '70s, '80s, and '90s as smoothly as a DJ fading from song to song. Each track, each memory, has a built-in switch to the next, for theatrical momentum that keeps on building. Crossing cultural borders as it scratches through time, the play moves from Angela's hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to the House of Detention where she was once held prisoner, to the playgrounds of Eisa's Bay Area public schools, the dorm rooms of the Ivy League and the shores of Senegal. The music crosses styles and decades, but it's hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present. It's just your average black macrobiotic revolutionary dancing family.

Urban Stages, NY

2006

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Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>>
Contained in "New Playwrights - The Best Plays of 2006" published by Smith and Kraus, 2007

978-0-573-66313-0

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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

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Anasi wants the Golden Fly Pie Award and will do anything to get it.

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2005

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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.

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1999

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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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.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN, United States)

2006

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Playscrips, Inc - 1072, 2006

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Dramatic/Comedic vaudeville

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6 females, 6 males, 3 either; Running time: 90-115 mins

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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

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2004

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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The relationship between two black critics becomes dangerous as they start taking everything literarily.

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2001

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A rapper has signed for a record label that boosts its sales by murdering its artists.

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2007

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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In 1957 Melba Pattillo Beals apllied to go to an all white college.