EDGAR NKOSI WHITE (1947 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Edgar Nkosi White
Baba And The Tree Of Life |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
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Synopsis: The Life and Times of the African drummer/musician/teacher Babatunde Olatunji, who introduced the concept of polyrhythms to American music and influenced Santana and Max Roach. | ||||
Black |
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| 1st Published: | no. 1, ed. by Mel Watkins, New York: Morrow | 1971 | ||
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| Genre: | Revue | Show | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Black Women, The |
| 1st Produced: | Keskidee Theatre, London | 1978 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: A brilliant collage of the inner lives of ten black women by a major poet of the theatre' Time Out | ||||
Boot Dance, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
| Company: | Temba | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Redemption Song and Other Plays", Boyars, London | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: The need for a sense of identity, the breaking of spirit and family relationships. Set in a mental hospital the play follows the disintegration and slow recovery of a young South African boot dancer who, after ten years alone in England suddenly suffers a mental breakdown. - Lyn Gardner, City limits | ||||
Burghers of Calais, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Underground", Morrow, New York | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 25 BM, 3 BF | |||
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Synopsis: The story of the Scottsboro boys from 1 931 to 1950. Uses whiteface | ||||
Cathedral of Chartres, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Liberator, vol. 8, July | 1968 | ||
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Count It All Joy |
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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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Crucificado, The |
| 1st Produced: | Vinnette Carrolls Urban Arts Corps, New York | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | New York: Morrow | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Morality Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Cast 6 BM, 5 B | |||
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Synopsis: Morose, a junkie existing in a haunting world of beggar prophets and trapped women, frees himself from the slavery imposed upon him by the white man by killing his white father. Uses whiteface | ||||
Defense, The |
| 1st Produced: | NFT, New York | 1976 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Mythic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | Cast 7 BM, 10 BF | |||
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Synopsis: Dread, a guard in a Lower East Side (New York) housing project, has had a dream of death. The play is a summoning of a defense, images from his past, events in his present-to justify his life. | ||||
Dija |
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| 1st Published: | Scripts, vol. 1, no. 10, Oct | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Childrens Play/Fantasy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 3 BM, 2 BF, 1 BB, 1 BG, extras | |||
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Synopsis: This is the inside of a black child's dream, a child who is searching for her birthday | ||||
Femmes Noires, Les |
| 1st Produced: | 1974 | |||
| Company: | NY Shakespeare Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Redemption Song and Other Plays", Boyars, London | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 BM, 15 BF | |||
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Synopsis: Slices from the lives of a variety of black women | ||||
Figures at Chartres, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Fun In Lethe; or, The Feast of Misrule |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1970 | ||
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| 1st Published: | in "Underground", Morrow, New York | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | Tragic-Comedy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 18 BM, 5 BF | |||
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Synopsis: The play involves the journey of a young Negro poet through Great Britain; it makes use of Chinese classical drama, as well as Greek comedy | ||||
Gente, La |
| 1st Produced: | 1973 | |||
| Company: | NY Shakespeare Festival | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Spanish/Black Domestic Drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 24 BM, 16 BF | |||
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I Marcus Garvey |
| 1st Produced: | Jamaica | 1992 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Lament for Rastafari |
| 1st Produced: | 1971 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Lament for Rastafari and other plays", Boyars, London | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | West Indian Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 BM, 5 BF | |||
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Synopsis: A Caribbean ritual which deals with a West Indian family from Commonwealth to London | ||||
Life and Times of J. Walter Smintheus, The |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre DeLys, ANTA Matinee Series, New York | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | The Crucificado, New York: Morrow | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Morality Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10 BM, 3 BF | |||
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Synopsis: Smintheus, a black bourgeois intellectual, while working on a massive sociological study entitled "The Contributions of the Negro Intellectual to American Society and His Resultant Impotence," avoids dealing with the more concrete problems of his life-his failing marriage, his black identity, his values, etc-until his only friend, Robert, dies in jail and Smintheus finally confronts reality and goes mad. Uses whiteface. | ||||
Like Them That Dream |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Lament for Rastafari and other plays", Boyars, London | 1983 | ||
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| Genre: | Tragi-comedy | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: a young South African living in exile in New York comes face to face with an old enemy, he must choose between revenge or mercy | ||||
Little Orfeo's Lay |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Live From Galilee |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Masada |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | South African Ritual | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Moon Dance Night |
| 1st Produced: | Arts, London | 1987 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mummer's Play, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Underground", Morrow, New York | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | Morality Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 BM, 4 BF | |||
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Synopsis: Bellysong and Pariah, whose age difference could make them father and son, are actually two black artists at different stages of development-experiencing, loving, and chiding the world and its maker for not giving them a break. Uses whiteface | ||||
Nine Night, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||
| Company: | Black Theatre Co-Op | |||
| 1st Published: | 1984 | |||
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Ode To Charlie Parker |
| 1st Produced: | Studio Rivbea, New York | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 10 BM, 7 BF | |||
Notes: Subtitled: Study for Sunlight in Park | ||||
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Offering For Nightworld |
| 1st Produced: | Brooklyn Academy of Music, Black Theatre Alliance Festival, New York | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Domestic Morality Play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 BM, 9 BF | |||
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Pygmies and the Pyramid, The |
| 1st Produced: | Yardbird Theatre Co., New York | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Two Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: 'My Ex' tells the story of three, very different, married couples who all recently decided to buy a new house. The three houses they buy are in a cul-de-sac on an up market estate. A few weeks after they move in, one of the couples invites the others to a 'get-to-know-each-other' dinner party. Each individual person knows there is something special about the evening from the beginning, but as the conversations develop before and after dinner, they all end up getting to know more than they bargained for. | ||||
Rastafarian, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Scripts, vol. I, no. 10, Oct | 1972 | ||
| 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: | Childrens Play/Fantasy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 BM, 1 BB, 1 BG, dancer, singer, extras | |||
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Synopsis: A boy child's acceptance of death and life | ||||
Redemption Song |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
| Company: | Black Theatre Co-Op | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Redemption Song and Other Plays", Boyars, London | 1985 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: The prodigal returns to the Caribbean to find his father has sold the house and lives in the bush. Can he reclaim it? | ||||
Rihla |
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Synopsis: Eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Baghdad | ||||
Ritual |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | Black Theatre Co-Op | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Ritual By Water |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1983 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1984 | |||
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Seigismundo's Tricycle: A Dialogue of Self and Soul |
| 1st Produced: | 1969 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | Poetic Fantasy | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 1 BM, 1 WM | |||
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Synopsis: An old white man on a silver tricycle and a Negro who walks with crutches examine their state of affairs. | ||||
Song of the Genji |
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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 | |||
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Transformations: A Church Ritual |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Trinity: The Long and Cheerful Road to Slavery |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
| Company: | Black Theatre Co-Op | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Lament for Rastafari and other plays", Boyars, London | 1983 | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: includes Man and Soul, The Case of Dr Kola, That Generation | ||||
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When Night Comes Day |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.co | |||