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THEODORE WARD (1902 - 1983) |
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Nationality: African-American Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Elise Virginia Ward |
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Plays by Theodore Ward |
Bell and the Light, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1962 | ||||
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 | #36133 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Historical Musical Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 BM, 11 BF, 4 WM, 2 WF, extras | |||||
Notes: | Music by Irving Schlein | |||||
Synopsis: | Slaves, including the colonel's own mulatto daughter, depend upon the colonel for their "good" treatment, but when the chips are down, they discover that they must be free and save themselves. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Big Money | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1961 | ||||
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 | #39334 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Musical Comedy Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 15 BM, 5 BF, 8 WM, 1 WF, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Thunderbird suddenly gets $85,000 and all his friends want to help him spend it, but the police interfere | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Big White Fog | ||
| 1st Produced: | Great Northern Theatre, Chicago, Ill | 1938 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Theater USA, ed. by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine, New York: Free Pr, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39335 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Domestic Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 6 BM, 6 BF, 4 BC, 2 WM, extras | |||||
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Synopsis: | Victor Mason, husband, father, and Garveyite (follower of Marcus Garvey) fights to keep his dream alive while his family and the world fall down around him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Candle in the Wind | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1966 | ||||
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 | #39336 | |||
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Genre: | 4 act Historical Protest Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 10 BM, 3 BF, 18 WM (doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Charles Caldwell, black senator from the state of Mississippi, 1875, fights to keep a black and white coalition in power and is killed for it | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1960 | ||||
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 | #39337 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Historical Musical Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 BM, 5 BF, 10 WM, 3 WF, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | This is the true story of the Negro musician, Blind Tom, and how he was exploited. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Daubers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1953 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Childress, Black Scenes (one scene), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39338 | |||
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Genre: | 3 Act Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 3 BM, 6 BF, 1 WM, 1 WF | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle class black family, in its efforts to achieve political power and property, loses its daughter to drug addiction. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Deliver The Goods | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1941 | ||||
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 | #39339 | |||
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Genre: | 3 act Historical Drama Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 18 WM, 6 WF (doubling). | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | First National Defense Play for World War II defense effort. It shows the struggle of longshoremen against fascists and corrupt bosses while trying to support the army overseas | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Even The Dead Rise | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1938 | ||||
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 | #39340 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Mythic Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 8 BM, 4 BF, 2 WM, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The black revolutionaries of the past refuse to lie quietly in their graves until justice is done | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Falcon Of Adowa | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, III | 1938 | ||||
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 | #39341 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia; Gugsa, a collaborator, is executed by the Italians when he defects and calls for Abyssinian unity and loyalty to Haile Selassie | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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John Brown | ||
| 1st Produced: | People's Drama, New York | 1950 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Act I, scene II, Masses and Mainstream, Oct. 1949, 1949 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39342 | |||
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Genre: | Historical Political Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | See also Of Human Grandeur | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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John de Conqueror | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1953 | ||||
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 | #39343 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Folk Opera Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 9 BM, 4 BF, 3 WM, extras | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Warrior and leader, John de Conqueror, leads his people into the sea rather than submit to white slavery | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Madison | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1956 | ||||
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 | #39344 | |||
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: | 2 act Historical Musical Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 BM, 5 BF, 4 WM, extras | |||||
Notes: | Adapted from Frederick Douglass' short story, "The Heroic Slave" (1853). | |||||
Synopsis: | Slaves being taken from Richmond to New Orleans on the S.S. Creole seize control through leadership of Madison and sail to Nassau and freedom. Subtitled: Creole | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Of Human Grandeur | ||
| 1st Produced: | As John Brown, People's Drama, New York | 1950 | ||||
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 | #39345 | |||
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Genre: | 4 act Historical Political Drama Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 7 BM, 1 BF, 20 WM, 2 WF (doubling) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The story of John Brown from 1835 until his execution. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Our Lan' | ||
| 1st Produced: | Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, NY | 1946 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Black Drama in America, ed. by Darwin T. Turner, Greenwich: Fawcett (also in Theatre Arts 31, June 1947): 51, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39346 | |||
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Genre: | 2 act Historical Drama Historical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 13 BM, 7 BF, 6 WM, 1 WF, BC | |||||
Notes: | written 1941-1946 | |||||
Synopsis: | . A band of freed slaves receives a Georgia island from General William Tecumseh Sherman to raise crops, build a school and community; they are later told by the federal government to leave; they refuse | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shout Hallelujah | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1941 | ||||
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 | #39347 | |||
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: | 3 Act Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 11 BM, 5 BF, 2 WM | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Young Sammy, talented musician, stands a chance to escape West Virginia mines, but discovers that his mother is a prostitute and kills himself | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sick and Tired (Sick and Tiahd) | ||
| 1st Produced: | np., 1938; revised version, 1964 | 1938 | ||||
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 | #39348 | |||
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 Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 BM, 1 BF, 3 BC, 1 WB | |||||
Notes: | Received second prize in city-wide contest sponsored by the New Theatre League, Chicago, Ill | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man goes to a commissary where a white man tries to cheat him and a scuffle follows; the white man falls on a plow and is killed. The black man refuses to run because he is sick and "tiahd" of white folks | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Throwback | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1952 | ||||
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 | #39349 | |||
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: | Folk Protest One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 1 BM, 2 BF, 1 WM, child | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black man kills a white mill owner for messing with his wife | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whole Hog or Nothing | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1952 | ||||
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 | #39350 | |||
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: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 5 BM,11 WM | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of black American servicemen fighting in World War II fight white racism in New Guinea as well and win | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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