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Rob Penny

ROB PENNY  (1941 - 2003)

 Nationality:    USA
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(formerly Oba Kilonfe), Poet, playwright, and educator. Born in Opelika, AL

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below is a list of Rob Penny's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bad News         Blue Yonder         Boppin' With the Ancestors         Coon Can         Dance of the Blues Dead         Deeds of Blackness         Depths of Her Star, The         Dianne's Heart Dries Out Stifi More         Good Black Don't Crack         Good Quick Feel-and then We Build upon a Plan, A         LifeRise         Little Willie Armstrong Jones         Night of the Hawk         Republic of New Africa, The         Sugar and Thomas         Take on a Life/ or Live in a Crowded Colored Cocoon         Trip, A         Uhh Survival Energy         Up to Life         Way, The         Who Loves the Dancer

Bad News

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1st Produced:
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Blue Yonder

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Boppin' With the Ancestors

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Two people run a barber shop. they may or may not be the re-incarnations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. One day a couple of violent, young hoodlums rush into the shop to escape the police. the youngsters have no knowledge of their heritage

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1st Produced:
Penn Theatre, Pittsburgh    2003

Organisations:
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre

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Coon Can

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-    1969

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Dance of the Blues Dead

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1st Produced:
Black Horizon Theatre of Pittsburgh, at A. Leo Weil Auditorium    1968

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Deeds of Blackness

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1st Produced:
Black Horizon Theatre of Pittsburgh, at A. Leo Weil Auditorium    1968

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Depths of Her Star, The

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From Richard Wright's short story "Bright And Morning Star."

1st Produced:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1976

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Dianne's Heart Dries Out Stifi More

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Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1976

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Good Black Don't Crack

Good Black Don't Crack
According to the program notes, "Good Black Don't Crack confronts several customary concepts: an older woman and younger man's relationship, young people attempting to define their own value system, and the human and social values society should prize. [In this play,] the playwright contends that the only values a society should prize are those that speed an individual toward social freedom and a full enriched life."

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1st Produced:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1977

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1st Published:
Contained in: "National Black Drama Anthology" published by Applause Books 1996   978-1557832191

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Genre:
Drama of black life, full length

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Good Quick Feel-and then We Build upon a Plan, A

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1st Produced:
Black Horizon theatre    1971

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Drama, full length

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LifeRise

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Little Willie Armstrong Jones

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According to the Author: It is Arranged in three movements And pulses. the play has its major movements, with the pulses being minor modes. the Action is spontaneous And grows out of the modes. For instance, in the second movement when [one of the characters] is Accidentally shot, the characters begin to recognize their responsibility. they can no longer permit unprincipled spontaneity to exist And disrupt the harmony And rhythm of the community's stability. Thus, the characters resolve [their] problems by politically banding together And breaking the oppressive mode. [Program Notes]

1st Produced:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1973

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Drama, full length

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Night of the Hawk

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-    1966

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Republic of New Africa, The

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Sugar and Thomas

Synopsis:
After Sugar begins wearing a natural (Afro) hairstyle, Thomas leaves her for a white woman, but Sugar gets her revenge

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1st Produced:
Oduduwa Production, Black Studies Dept., Univ. of Pittsburgh    1970

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1st Published:
in Connection, Porter, 1970   -

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Genre:
meloDrama One Act

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Take on a Life/ or Live in a Crowded Colored Cocoon

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1st Produced:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1981

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Trip, A

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1st Produced:
Black Horizon theatre    1986

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Uhh Survival Energy

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1st Produced:
-    1970

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Up to Life

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1st Produced:
-    1968

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Way, The

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1st Produced:
-    1969

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Who Loves the Dancer

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1st Produced:
Kuntu Repertory Theatre, Univ. of Pittsburgh    1976

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Genre:
Drama, full length

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