DANIEL W OWENS
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Daniel W Owens
Acife And Pendabis |
| 1st Produced: | Afro-American Studio Theater, NY | - | ||
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Bargainin' Thing |
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Box, The |
| 1st Produced: | New African Co., Boston, Mass | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | Allegorical Drama 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Young Black people trapped in a box gradually recognise their situation and also relise that they must relate to the 'old man' (slave) and must understand his attitudes, which differ from their own. | ||||
Bus Play and Slipt |
| 1st Produced: | Dan Owens Company | - | ||
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Clean |
| 1st Produced: | New African Co., Boston, Mass | - | ||
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Debts |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||
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Emily Tillington |
| 1st Produced: | Emerson College, MA | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | auth manuscript | - | ||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: Deals with a young black woman coming to grips with the world and her vision of herself in it | ||||
Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Us, Imitatin' Death |
| 1st Produced: | New African Co., Boston, Mass | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 |
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Synopsis: Absurdist. Bizarre look at black revolutionaries and the contradictions within the revolutionary strug-gle | ||||
Joined |
| 1st Produced: | Peoples Theatre, Cambridge, Mass | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | Melodrama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A black assassin is out to exterminate a white liberal. Con-flict: Can he go through with one more job? | ||||
Lagrima Del Diablo |
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Little Ham |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Music by Judd Woldin; Lyrics by Richard Enquist & Judd Woldin; Based on the book by Langston Hughes | ||||
Synopsis: 1930s Harlem and the locals unite to kick out the Mafia | ||||
Michigan, The |
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Misunderstanding |
| 1st Produced: | National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, Mass | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Vignette | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The relationship between a black man and his woman and the fact that she does not believe in his dreams | ||||
More You Get, The More You Want, The |
| 1st Produced: | Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, NYC | - | ||
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Nigger, Nigger, Who's The Bad Nigger |
| 1st Produced: | New African Co., Boston, Mass | 1969 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Two brothers, one light and one dark, and the class conflict | ||||
Noirhommes, The |
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One Shadow Behind |
| 1st Produced: | People's Theater of Cambridge, MA | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | Poetic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | dancer, musicians | |||
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Synopsis: A woman and two men, all sensi-tive and talented, struggle with themselves and each other for self-expression until one dies. | ||||
Refusal |
| 1st Produced: | National Center of Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, Mas | 1973 | ||
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| 1st Published: | auth manuscript | - | ||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: Concerns the writer and those for whom he is writing-black people or the white critical world's acclaim and acknowledgment. | ||||
What Reason Could I Give? |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
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| Genre: | Musical Drama | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The story of an obsessed, guilty writer who is incapable of experiencing love or creating | ||||
Where Are They ? |
| 1st Produced: | Black students at Yale Drama School, New Haven, Conn | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Entertains the question of what has happened to the revolu-tionary brothers of the 1 960s | ||||