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New Dance Group Arts Center, NY

2007

New Dance Group Arts Center

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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by Suzan-Lori Parks, additional writing by The Acting Ensemble

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2007

Faux-Real Theatre Company

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New York

1990

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American Theatre Magazine, NY - March

1994

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of "post-nuptial excitement," would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visitors was a man who has now come to call himself The Foundling Father. He was a digger by trade - a grave digger - and he was struck by the size of the Hole and the pageantry of the place. He returns home with his wife, Lury, a woman who keeps secrets for the dead, and together they start a mourning business. Unfortunately, our hero can't get the Great Hole pageantry out of his head; the echoes of history speak to him and call him to greatness. At rise we meet this Foundling Father. He has left his wife and child and gone out west to dig a huge replica of the Great Hole of History. In the hole sits our hero. He is dressed like Abraham Lincoln, complete with beard, wart, frock coat and stove pipe hat. He tells us the story of his own life (in the third person) and tells us that

New York

1987

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

1990

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play about circularity, domestic harmony and horse racing

New York

1990

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in "Theatre", New Haven, Summer/Fall

1990

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an historical dreamscape of death and non religious resurrection

Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, USA >>>

1991-92

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Smith & Kraus in 20/20: Twenty One-Act Plays from the Twenty Year History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays and by TCG in The America Play and Other Works.

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As a bride-to-be and her mother watch from atop a hill, two suitors vie in bloody combat for the lady's hand in marriage. Meanwhile, the young lady prepares her heart and trousseau for the victor--until news from her matchmaker reveals just how deadening romantic illusions can be. This tragicomedy of courtly ritual is an Actors Theatre commission

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in Red Letter Plays, TCG

2002

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New York

1990

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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New York

1989

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in "The American Play and other works", Theatre Communications Group, USA

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African-American history in the shadow of the photographic image

New York

1999

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American Theatre Magazine, NY - March

2000

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from Hawthorne's tale, The Scarlet Letter

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In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter "A" is, so far, the only letter she knows. Her five kids are named Jabber, Bully, Trouble, Beauty and Baby, and the characters are played by adult actors who double as five other people in Hester's life: her ex-boyfriend, her social worker, her doctor, her best friend and her minister. While Hester's kids fill her life with joy-lovingly comical moments amid the harsh world of poverty-the adults with whom she comes into contact only hold her back. Nothing can stop the play's tragic end.

Makor, NY

2007

New York Neo-Futurists

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New York

1989

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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a woman remembers the past through the things she has saved: lots of bric-a-brac in formaldehyde

Amherst, Massachusetts

1984

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com

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Public Theatre, NY >>>

2001

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Dramatists Play Service, NY

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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks's latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.

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Theatre Communications Group, New York

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In 1810, The Venus Hottentot (as she is dubbed)-a young black woman with an enormous posterior-is lured away from her menial job in South Africa to tour the world and make lots of money. Once in England, however, she is sold to a freak show and becomes a star. She shows off her attribute, bringing in crowds and raking in money for the side show owners. Quickly becoming adept at showing herself, and figuring out what the people want, she even tries to break out on her own, but can't quite master that in those social times. Eventually, she is procured by a white doctor who is more than fascinated with her. He falls in love with her and keeps her as his mistress until he is in danger of losing his medical reputation and social standing. Venus, who journeyed to Europe with high hopes, at the end of her short life, was dissected by the man she loved.