LORRAINE HANSBERRY   (1930 - 1965)


Lorraine Hansberry
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Plays by Lorraine Hansberry

LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Blancs, Les
1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Les Blancs(collection), Random House, New York
1972
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
17
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
completed by Robert Nemiroff
Synopsis:
Young African returns from England to Africa and becomes entwined in conflict and rebellion.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Drinking Gourd, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "The Collected Last Plays", New American Library, New York
1983
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Raisin In The Sun, A
1st Produced:
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1959
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
1b extras
Notes:
performed on tour first
Synopsis:
Tensions within middle class black family erupt over legacy.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window, The
1st Produced:
Longacre Theatre, New York
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1965
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
finished posthumously by Robert Nemiroff
Synopsis:
Greenwich Village reform candidate's motives are discovered to be not entirely altruistic.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
To Be Young Gifted And Black
1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre, New York
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1971
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Genre:
-
Biographical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
adapted by Robert Nemiroff
Synopsis:
A portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in her own words.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Toussaint
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
-
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY
What Use Are Flowers?
1st Produced:
Unproduced
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Les Blancs(collection), Random House, New York
1972
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
After the holocaust a hermit tries to civilise surviving children.
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DAVID HARDING   


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Plays by David Harding

DAVID HARDING
One Little Boy
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1990
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Genre:
Youth Play with music
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
16 (11m, 1f, 4 variable) + chorus
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The traditional Christmas story, with the characters more realistic than sometimes and including several small touches of humour.
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DAVID HARDING
Out Of Tune
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1991
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Genre:
Youth musical playlet, 30 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
11 speaking parts, chorus
Notes:
written by Graham Ferguson and David Harding
Synopsis:
The Notes of the Piano are all set to have an enjoyable morning but someone has been playing too hard and they are now out of tune. When Ben and Sarah come in with their friends to find the reason for the noise, they are amazed to find the Notes out of the piano. They try to make music, singing a lively song with actions, but it is no good as the Notes get it all wrong. The Music Fairy appears and, with the assistance of her personal (and comic) Tuning Fork, the Notes are restored to their former harmony, so all ends happily.
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DAVID HARDING
Piper Of Dreams, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1992
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Genre:
Youth Play with music
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
large cast
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
All our dreams come from the magic notes of the Piper, who weaves them each night from under a tree in a wood. He summons six children to help provide a Dream for the Future and animals who explain why they are frightened of humans. Then monsters arrive who, to the childrens' surprise, turn out to be men and women - hunters, farmers, developers, yobbos and even picnickers. With the Piper's help the children show the monsters what they have to do to protect the environment.
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DAVID HARDING
Turn Of The Tide
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1974
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Genre:
Youth musical play, 90 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
26 speaking / singing parts, chorus
Notes:
written by Graham Ferguson and David Harding
Synopsis:
A storm is brewing when Big Sam takes a party of children on his boat to visit the lighthouse. On arrival they find it deserted but the weather forces them to spend the night there. Behind a door they discover a tunnel leading through gold mines to an ancient underground city, whose civilisation is a thousand years behind. The children are captured and then persuaded to introduce the citizens to twentieth century ideas - at first greeted eagerly but soon leading to unrest and dissatisfaction. They try to escape but are caught and sentenced to death. At the last minute flood-gates are opened and in the ensuing chaos they escape, taking back with them two friends from the city.
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DAVID HARDING
Watch This Space
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
1986
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Genre:
Youth musical play, 75 min
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
12 speaking parts, chorus
Notes:
written by Graham Ferguson and David Harding
Synopsis:
The children are preparing a float for Birchdale Village Carnival; it is to be a space ship and they are dressed as Space Invaders. In the same barn Professor Stroganoff is busy constructing what he fervently hopes will be a Time Machine. The children decide to hoax him into thinking that it works and that he has landed on another planet. He is almost taken in - but the practical joke is interrupted by the bombastic entrance of the Mayoress, a bossy dragon with her comic husband Hercules, a henpecked mouse. She threatens to drop the children from the Carnival parade, bullies her husband and insults the Professor and his invention. In return, he persuades her inside the Time Machine, which succeeds in transporting both of them, not to another century but into the village duck pond. Lessons are learnt and all ends well!
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