UJAMAA OYAMO
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Plays by Ujamaa OyamO
Advantage Of Dope, The |
| 1st Produced: | Buffalo,NY | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Two Act Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2BM 1BW 2WM | |||||
| Notes: | also as sreenplay | |||||
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Angels In The Men's Room |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Barbarians, The |
| 1st Produced: | Reading, Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York, Dec. 1975 | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 9 males (4 black, 5 white), 3 females (1 black, 2 white). | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play on the real barbarians of this society, and their ultimate submission to their source of power as that power is transferred to the hands of others | |||||
Breakout, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1972 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Black Drama: An Anthology" Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib, 1972 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Protest Morality Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 13 BM, 1 BF; revised to 8 BM, 1 BF, 2 WM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Killer of Malcolm X receives special treatment in jail as other black prisoners must look after themselves. A play full of humor that shows, among other things, that we are all in prison and can 'break out" if we simply move instead of theorizing and procrastinating | |||||
Called Ur Fear |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | comedy satire | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, 2 WM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play about the black experience | |||||
Chump Changes |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Chumpanzees |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 BM, 1 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Crazy Niggas |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 3 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | 13 males (10 black, 3 white), 8 females (7 black, 1 white). | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play showing who the real niggers (and other folks) are | |||||
Evening Of Living Colours, An |
| 1st Produced: | Trenton, NJ | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Olu Dara | |||||
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Everymoment |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1986 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Famous Orpheus |
| 1st Produced: | New Brunswick, NJ | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Fried Chicken And Invisibility |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Fuck Money |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Guerilla Tactics | |||||
Geronimo Jones: An American Folktale |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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His First Step In The Corner |
| 1st Produced: | NEC Workshop, New York | 1971 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | The New Lafayette Theatre Presents, ed. by Ed Bullins, New York: Anchor Books, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Satire | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 BM, 1 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Based on contradictions | |||||
I am a Man |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - November, 1993 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Juice Problem, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 3 Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 BM, 5 BF | |||||
| Notes: | Reading, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, Martinique Theatre, New York, Jan. 1975 | |||||
| Synopsis: | An erotic love "chartune" about doing whatever is necessary to survive and "get over" (succeed) | |||||
Kindest Of The Finest |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 14 BM, 3 BF, 4 WM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Quota time and paddy wagon pickup time for New York's "finest" on 119th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue | |||||
Last Party, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 5 BM, 1 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Let Me Live |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Lovers, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 BM, 1 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Mary Goldstein And The Author |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Third World Press, Chicago, 1989 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black wife and her mother discuss black women's changing social roles with music and dancing | |||||
Negroes, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Black Troupe Magazine", 1, 2, 1970 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Never Look A Word In The Face |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Surrealistic Mythic | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The male psyche encounters the She in a "continuing level of consciousness." | |||||
Nine As One |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play/Screenp!ay | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM, 1 WM, 1 WF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | The various levels and universality of oppression and how it is dealt with | |||||
Old Black Joe |
| 1st Produced: | San Francisco | 1984 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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One Third Of A Nation |
| 1st Produced: | Fairfax, Vir | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Arthur Arent | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Outta Site |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Black Troupe Magazine", 1, 4, 1970 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, 2 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Place Of The Spirit Dance, The |
| 1st Produced: | New Haven, C'cut | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Ravishing Moose, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 8 M & F | |||||
| Notes: | Written for the National Theatre of the Deaf. | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Resurrection Of Lady Lester, The |
| 1st Produced: | Yale Repertory, CT | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays USA 1", Theatre Communications Group, 1981 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Return Of The Been-To |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Revelation, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | B M & F dancers, drummers, singers | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Sanctuary |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Sketches | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Singing Joy |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Stalwarts, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Star Is Born Again, A |
| 1st Produced: | African-American Theatre Center, Buffalo, NY | 1978 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Privately published, 1974 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Children’s Play | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Adapted from the story The Star That Could Not Play, by the same playwright | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Store, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Guerilla tactics | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Surveyors, the |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Guerilla tactics | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Temple Of Youth, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Thieves, The |
| 1st Produced: | Black Arts / West, Seattle | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Morality | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 6 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Unemployment |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Guerilla tactics | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Upcrusted |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Guerilla tactics | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM, 4 BF | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
When Our Spirit Awakens, Then Black Theatre Opens |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | 4 Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 21 BM, 4 BF, dancers, drummers, singers | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play that asks when black theatre is going to discover what it really is | |||||
White Black Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Willie Bignigga |
| 1st Produced: | Henry Street Settlement House, New York | 1970 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Dramatika", 3, 1, 1970 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Street Ritual/Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 BM, children | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Shows that no matter what a "nigga" has got or has gotten to, he is still a "nigga." | |||||