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Company of Us, Greenwood, SC

1976

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Black Arts / West

1971

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1973

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Domestic Drama, 2 acts

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Notes: Won for the author a Drama Desk Award, 1971-72, as most promising playwright. First prod. as a videotape production (presumably by NFT) on NET, WGBHIBoston, 1969. Prod. Off-Off-Bway by NFT, at St. Augustine's Chapel, New York; transferred to Bway at the Theatre De Lys, June 16, 1971-June 16, 1972, playing for one year (247 perfs.); dir, by SHAUNEILLE PERRY. With Kishasha, Arthur French, Lorraine Ryder, Gloria Edwards, Loretta Greene, Louise Stubbs, MINNIE GENTRY, Jimmy Hayeson, and SAUNDRA SHARP. Prod. by the Bennett Coil. Little Theatre, Oct. 18-20, 1973, for 3 perfs. Made into a film prod. by Lee Savin, released by Cinema Releasing, 1972, and dir, by OSSIE DAVIS. With Leslie Uggams, Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Peggy Petitt, and RUBY DEE

Synopsis: Trapped in a life which can lead nowhere, Billie Jean has dropped out of school and secretly taken a job as a dancer in a local bar, her ultimate goal being to become a ballet dancer. But her ambitions bring her into conflict with her envious sisters, both of whom have been locked into dreary marriages too early, and her mother, who has given up on her own children and now lavishes her care and affection on her "foster daughters" -industrious girls to whom she has transferred her own frustrated hopes. Billie Jean must fight a multiplicity of prejudices - family, sex, colour, class and economic - to win an education and forge her own identity. But with her grandmother's strength and trust to embolden her, Billie Jean breaks free, establishing at last a tenuous but hopeful relationship with her mother and taking the first sure steps toward a life which will, at least, be of her own making.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT, USA >>>

1981

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Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993, Smith and Kraus Books

1994

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Synopsis: Born with six fingers on his left hand, young Tom is rejected by his superstitious father. To win his father's praise and love, and to earn enough money for an operation on his hand, he wrestles a bear.

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The First Decatet of Ten-Minute Plays SunRaSon Publications

2004

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Ten Min

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Synopsis: A collection of Ten-Minute plays on the role of mercy in the art of reconciliation

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1975

Eureka Theatre Group

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Film Treatment

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Synopsis: On the Life of Ida-Welles Barnett, antilynch crusader, apparently written for the Boston Committee, 1975

NFT, NY (may not have been produced)

1972

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Drama, 2 acts

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Notes: Prod. by NEC, 1970s. The author states that two scenes were read at the literary events of FESTAC in Lagos, Nigeria, 1977.

Synopsis: A group of black students in a white college prepare to fight when attacked by whites.

Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1973

Eureka Theatre Group

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Sharon Waite Community Center, Harmony, MS

1964

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Thesis Play

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Notes: Was part of a Mississippi CORE-SNCC program designed to interest students in reading

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Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1973

Eureka Theatre Group

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Mime Show

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Theatre for Artcentric Living, New York

1978

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Play/Drama

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Notes: presented at the LaMont-Zeno Theatre the same year

Synopsis: A pre-adolescent girl and her Older brother resolve problems of sibling rivalry and the shame they feel towards their father's illiteracy and old age.

Montreal Expo, Canada

1967

Mobilization for Youth (New York)

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Play for youngbloods

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Notes: Prod. as a rock musical for the young by New Federal Theatre, New York, 1977.

Synopsis: A gang of young kids decides to judge the cruelty of their parents toward them, but when they kill the parents in effigy, they realize that parents are family after all.

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Herman Lehman Coil., New York

1974

Eureka Theatre Group

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NEC Workshop, NY

1969

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in Black Drama In America, Howard University Press

1994

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Synopsis: Set on the campus of a southern university, a young undergraduate struggles with the racially-charged ideologies set in motion to determine the proper response to oppression.

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The Second Decatet of Ten-Minute Plays SunRaSon Publications

2005

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Synopsis: A collection of Ten-Minute bio-plays on African-American historical personalities who boldly confronted the political forces of their day and who left us the benefit of their wisdom in overcoming these forces

Lincoln Center, NY

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Notes: The orig. play on which her musical The Prodigal Sister (1974) was based. Prod. in New York as a street-theatre project at Lincoln Center, and on street corners in the Bronx.

Synopsis: the problems of a young unwed mother

Theatre De Lys, NY

1974

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SF; Music by Fiddle-back Music Co., New York

1975

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Musical Comedy

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Notes: Music and lyrics by Micki Grant. Book and lyrics by J e Franklin

Synopsis: Jackie, a young black woman in conflict with parents, becomes pregnant and leaves home for the freedom of the big city, only to return home to find love and acceptance

Theatre for Artcentric Living

1970's

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Notes: Presented at Skidmore Coil., Saratoga Springs, New York, 1970s.

Synopsis: The first black undergraduate attending the University of Texas gets trapped by non-academic forces which degenerate into internecine warfare

New Feminist Theatre, NY

1960's

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in The Best American Short Plays of 1994-95, Applause Theatre Book Publishers

1995

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Short Play

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Notes: also published in Perrine's Literature: Seventh Edition, Harcourt-Brace, 1998

Synopsis: In a racialized world where "race" is the great divider, a feisty elder refuses to pass for white as she struggles with feelings of anger toward the white father who wronged her Black mother

Rites and Reason, Brown Univ., Providence, RI

1983

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Synopsis: An insensitive parent loses a second child to the world

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