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GUS EDWARDS |
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Literary Agent: Susan Schulman Literary Agency |
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Plays by Gus Edwards |
Aftermath | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||||
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| 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 | #10740 | |||
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Black Body Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
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| 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 | #10741 | |||
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Offering, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10742 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The scene is a shabby basement apartment on New York's West Side, where Bob Tyrone, an aging black, lives with his young wife, Princess. Now on welfare, Tyrone spends most of his time dozing, or glass in hand, watching television. Unexpected visitors arrive in the form of Martin, an obviously prosperous young black man, and Ginny, his beautiful white girlfriend. Martin offers Tyrone a large sum of money, but Tyrone declines and invites his visitors to stay the night. In a series of highly atmospheric scenes, it develops that Martin, a hired killer, had known Tyrone when he too was a power in illegal activity, and he still regards him with awe. At first the action seems to be concerned with Martin's desire to help his former mentor, but gradually, as the sense of menace deepens, we are aware that a struggle for sexual dominance has now become the focus of their relationship-as Tyrone seduces Ginny, and Martin, suddenly powerless, yields to the psychological battle of wits to which his now reinvigorated master has subjected him. | |||||
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Old Phantoms | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #10743 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Shifting back and forth in time, the play begins as two brothers and their sister come together for the funeral of their father, a strongly motivated black man who had become a respected property owner in the small Southern town where they had grown up. In a series of flashbacks we meet the father, Jack Hamilton, as he tries to inculcate his values and fierce sense of pride into his children, challenging his sons to excel in whatever they undertake, and disparaging the poor young black boy who has shown an interest in his daughter. The spectre of his beloved wife, who died in childbirth, and the presence of Mavis, who replaced her in his household, also shed light on the ultimately destructive effect of Jack's autocratic ways, and the impossibly high standards he has set. Eventually the younger, brighter son falls easily into a life of crime; the older, slower brother settles for meaningless, routine jobs; and the daughter, subjugated and depersonalized by her father's demands, resigns herself to caring for him in his final years. In the end, after squabbling over the division of the estate, the three part-free at last from their father's powerful presence, yet committed, irrevocably, to the destinies which his influence has shaped for them. | |||||
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