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JOSEPH A WALKER (1935 - 2003) |
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Nationality: African-American Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
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Plays by Joseph A Walker |
Antigone Africanus | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35918 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Believers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Garrick Theatre, New York | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Best Plays of 1967-68, ed. by Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., New York: Dodd, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35919 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 BM, 6 BF | |||||
Notes: | written by Joseph A Walker and Josephine Jackson, Music and lyrics by Benjamin Carter and Others | |||||
Synopsis: | Action takes place in the "Gone Years" and the "Then and Now Years." Subtitled: The Black Experience in Song. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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District Line | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35920 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Harangues, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Best Short Plays 1971", Chilton, Philadelphia, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35921 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 1 BF | |||||
Notes: | aka Tribal Harangue Two | |||||
Synopsis: | Action takes place on Avenue B on New York's Lower East Side. The last of four plays in a production called The Harangues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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King Buddy Bolden | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46016 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Tony Booker and Dorothy A Dinroe-Walker; lyrics and book by Joseph A Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lion Is a Soul Brother, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Demi-Gods, New York | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35922 | |||
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Genre: | Jazz-Rock Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Dorothy Dinroe | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in an African village, a medicine man tells the story of a lion who talked and was a friend to man | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ododo | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Black Drama Anthology, ed. by Woodie King, Jr. and Ron Milner, New York: New Amer. Lib., 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35923 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 11 B M & F | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A conjurer conjures up the spirits of the orig-inal black people and traces the black man's history from his beginnings in Africa to the present | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Out of the Ashes | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35924 | |||
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Genre: | Satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In two parts (the Legacy and the Vow). An en-semble piece that mixes old minstrel and modern scenes with actors that metamorphose from role to role until central character, Joe, can save his pop from death and alcohol. Subtitled: A Minstrel Show | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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River Niger, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hill and Wang, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35925 | |||
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Genre: | Domestic Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 BM, 4 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A son returns home to his father, not quite the hero the father anticipated nor the staunch militant his former buddies once knew. The father becomes the hero | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Theme of the Black Struggle | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35926 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tribal Harangue One | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35927 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Historical Mythic One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BM, 1 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The action takes place in an African dungeon on the coast of West Africa in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tribal Harangue Three | ||
| 1st Produced: | NEC, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35928 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Mythic One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BM, 1 BF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Action takes place in the future. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tribal Harangue Two | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Best Short Plays, 1971, ed. by Stanley Rich-ards, New York: Chilton, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35929 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 BM, 1 WM, 1 WF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black revolutionary's plot to kill the rich white stepfather of his lover is foiled by the white man's control of money. One of four plays in a production called The Harangues | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Yin Yang | ||
| 1st Produced: | Afro-American Studio, New York | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35930 | |||
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Genre: | Ritual | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 6 BF | |||||
Notes: | Music by Dorothy D. Walker | |||||
Synopsis: | . A potpourri of black thought forms, projected through poetry, drama, dance, and music | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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