ALEXANDER THOMAS
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Plays by Alexander Thomas
Black Stuff |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
| Company: | Eagle/Hawk Productions | |||||
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| 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 Performance Art, 105 min | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | written by LeVan D. Hawkins & Alexander Thomas. VENUE #14: The Gene Frankel Theatre | |||||
| Synopsis: | In this Chicago-based multimedia comedy called "hysterical & incisive" by the L.A. Times, two black men re-enact their lives after having identical dreams of dying and being denied entrance to the black section of heaven because they weren't "black enough". | |||||
Throw Pitchfork |
| 1st Produced: | October Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre (work in progress production) (New York, NY, United States) | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN | - | ||||
| 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: | 75-80 min | Dramedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 1 male (1-5 actors possible: 1-5 males, ) | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Willie Thomas, an overworked, alcoholic, African-American father, passes on a legacy of self-hate and anger to his four sons: Jimmy, Wesley, Cleve, and the youngest, Alex. Each finds his own way to digest this legacy -- Jimmy through hard drugs, Wes through petty crime, Cleve through education and the arts. The older brothers are seen through the eyes of young Alex, who had a pitchfork thrown at him by his father during a drunken rage. He desperately searches for self-definition as he attempts both to emulate and separate himself from his brothers and father. His search crystallizes when his father's true story is revealed -- as a child, Willie suffered a cruel injustice at the hands of a racist Alabama penal system, which virtually robbed Willie of his childhood. Written for one energetic actor, Throw Pitchfork explores serious terrain with much comedy. | |||||