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2006

Eagle/Hawk Productions

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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

Comedy Performance Art, 105 min

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written by LeVan D. Hawkins & Alexander Thomas. VENUE #14: The Gene Frankel Theatre

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".

October Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre (work in progress production) (New York, NY, United States)

1999

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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

75-80 min

Dramedy

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1 male (1-5 actors possible: 1-5 males, )

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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.