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MILBURN DAVIS (1937 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Plays by Milburn Davis |
$100,000 Nigger, The, or You Can Take the Nigger Out of the Country but | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading NLT, New York, 1970. NEC, NY | 1973 | ||||
Company: | Spelman College | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39524 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4BM, 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | (Or if original title is deemed offensive) "The $100,000 Jackass". with Willie Jones as Jake | |||||
Synopsis: | Jake, an extremely funny, dim-witted, superstitious black man from Alabama, inherits $100,000, and Louis, his Harlem-born slickster cousin, egged on by his girlfriend, Dianne, hires Madam Zee Zee, a phony Harlem medium, to help Louis fleece Jake out of his windfall." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Rage in Suburbia | ||
| 1st Produced: | Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" series Produced Atlanta, GA | - - - | ||||
Company: | New Day Productions Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39528 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Adventure Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 4 BFM, 1 WM, 1 WF | |||||
Notes: | with Jamil Malek as Vic Jackson, Stinius Simuel as Ted Jackson, Barbara McCloud as Emily Brown, Ricki Lee Hagen as Mr. Gelman and Elizabeth Jarvis as Mrs. Gelman | |||||
Synopsis: | Victor ("Vic") Jackson, Harlem ex-con and building superintendent, and his younger brother, Ted, carry out Vic's plan to rip off his girlfriend's employer, David and Esther Gelman, a wealthy lawyer and his school-teacher wife, who reside in Great Neck, L.I. The heist is born after Emily Brown, Vic's girlfriend and the Gelman's sleep-in maid, makes an innocent disclosure, overheard by Vic and Ted and Ted's new girlfriend, Mary Lou Hudson, the sleep-in maid that Emily introduced to Ted. Life on the weekends is a blast for the two couples as they party and enjoy sex in the basement apartment, visited also by Albert Barrow, a West Indian tenant newly-arrived from the Bahamas and Rose Wiley, a numbers player who lives on the fifth floor. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls | ||
| 1st Produced: | Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" series Produced Atlanta, GA | - - - | ||||
Company: | New Day Productions Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39526 | |||
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Genre: | Full Length Adventure Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 5 BFM | |||||
Notes: | aka Precious. with Jamil Malek as Duke, Carmen Jones as Betty Dawson and Joe Kelly as Bill Dawson | |||||
Synopsis: | Duke, a slithery-tongued Harlem pimp, connives to lure Betty Dawson, a pretty, but confused high school drop-out, into his stable, provoking the wrath of her single dad, Bill Dawson, who's engaged to Ruth Simmons, his next-door neighbor, who later helps her fiance fire barbs at Duke, who, uninvited, brazenly brings his prostitutes to dinner, unaware that Bill is crafting a devious plan that doesn't prevent the wine-loving building superintendent, Mr. Green, from hanging around to sip wine and ogle the pretty girls. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Galivantin' Husband | ||
| 1st Produced: | N.E.C. Repertory, St. Marks Theatre, Greenwich Village, New York City | 1973 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39523 | |||
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Genre: | Two Act Domestic Adventure | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | with Taurean Blacque and Joyce Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | Melvin Spencer of Harlem, an unfaithful husband, invites tragedy after abandoning argumentative wife, Hattie and infant son, Little Melvin. He's partly miffed because Hattie told him that if each domestic chore carried a price tag he could not afford her services. He later meets Lillian, the crazed, gun-toting Other Woman, at the Cozy Inn bar in Harlem. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Love Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39531 | |||
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Genre: | Skit for Street Theatre Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Singer is interrupted by heckler (actor) who demands the vocalist sing the truth (hate) instead of love, but the singer contunues to sing love. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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More Power to the Grape | ||
| 1st Produced: | Channel 12, "Love Tales Theater" pilot show Produced Atlanta, GA | 1985 | ||||
Company: | New Day Productions Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39525 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Comedy (TV) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 2 BF | |||||
Notes: | with Bill Nunn as Ben Thomas | |||||
Synopsis: | There is humorous interaction between two black couples in New York City - Kwame Odidi-Okidi, the Greenwich Village husband, smitten with bitterness and excessive black consciousness, and housewife, Pat; Ben Thomas, the Harlem husband, a corporate manager, who wants to become a father, in spite of working wife, Cheryl's opposition. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nightmare | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39533 | |||
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Genre: | Tragi-Fantasy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM 3 BF extra | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The courier of truth appears to a black man in his dreams and turns the brother onto Blackness and how he must relate to it in his life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Playing the Game | ||
| 1st Produced: | Channel 12, "Love Tales Theatre" series Produced Atlanta, GA | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39529 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Comedy (TV) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 4 BFM | |||||
Notes: | with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall and Bernadette Hudson | |||||
Synopsis: | Ben and Cheryl Thomas fly in from New York City to spend weekend at Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's apartment in East Point, GA. Ben and Cheryl visit Greenbriar Mall, discover Southern hospitality is more myth than fact, then return to apartment, where they socialize and focus on a medley of topics, including Cheryl's new baby, Cassandra, Kwame's disappointment with his mailroom job, the advantages of becoming an entrepreneur and the obvious role that most African-Americans play in the System as low achieving jobholders satisfied with mediocre work and mediocre pay. Calling himself a "pawn in another man's game," Kwame's remark tied in with the title of the show and justified the frequent playing of the background song, "The Games People Play". | |||||
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Precious | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39527 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | see Duke's Girls Are Bad Girls | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rain Dance, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | First Walker Theatre, Black Arts Festival, Produced Atlanta, GA | 1992 | ||||
Company: | New Day Productions Company/Walker Art Gallery, co-producers | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39530 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Comedy (TV) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 2 BF, Five-year-old Female | |||||
Notes: | with Jamil Malek, Suzanne Randall, James L. Scott and Rhonda Smith | |||||
Synopsis: | Ben and Cheryl fly in from New York City to visit Pat and Kwame Odidi-Okidi's at their digs in the Pinetree Deluxe Apartments in Atlanta, GA. The couples dance to Oran "Juice" Jones' recording of "The Rain" and alternate between being somber and serious when they savor a smorgasbord of subjects that include Chery's long-awaited pregnancy, the devastating impact of drugs, welfare, money eclipsing moral and spiritual values, female inequality in the workplace, the Odidi-Okidi's son, Akbar playing violin, and the growing rift between black men and black women. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sometimes a Switchblade Helps | ||
| 1st Produced: | NLY Workshop, Harlem, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | New Lafayette Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #8973 | |||
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Genre: | Farcical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1BM, 2 BF, 1 WM | |||||
Notes: | with George Miles as director and Starletta DuPois as Ellen Johnson | |||||
Synopsis: | Jamil Massoud, an Afro-wearing new employee at Many Products, Corp., joins a table in the company cafeteria where Brian Greenly, a white merchandising manager and Ellen Johnson, a black secretary, are having lunch. A heated argument ensues between the blonde-wig wearing Ellen, who continually evidences a shallow and hollow mentality and Jamil, who minces no words in flaunting his racial pride. Aware that Brian is making a move on Ellen, he flips when she makes a disparaging remark about Afro hairstyles. Outraged by her self-hate and fired up by his pent-up rage, Massoud whips out a switchblade knife and sends other diners scattering before snatching Ellen's wig from her head, after which Brian flees, mouthing threats and Ellen finds herself, creating magic with an Afro pick, a metamorphosis that is both funny and delightful to observe. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sporting Times | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading NEC Workshop, NY | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39532 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 BM 2 BF 1 WF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A prostitute induces a young dude from Harlem to become her pimp, after which he goes about composing scatological ghetto rhymes in a search for joints. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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